This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

This single-track road rewards brave drivers with stunning Scottish scenery.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.