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

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

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

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.