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

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

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

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

Dive for drinks at Croatia's first and only underwater winery.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.