The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Once home to a Scottish baronet, this 18th-century historic house doubles as a legendary art space.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

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

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.