Places CuriousOddball Wants to Go

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

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

A glacial pothole was once a hideout for a notorious Scottish outlaw.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

An important pilgrimage site for pagans and early Christians, named for a Celtic goddess-turned-saint.

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

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