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An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

A community's effort restores the historical Maryhill Burgh Hall.

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

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

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

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

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.