A cemetery for Slovenian notables also serves as a popular recreation space.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

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

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

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

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

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

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.