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This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

This ancient bridge made of stone slabs is said to be reserved for the devil to sunbathe.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

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

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.