Carcassonne, France
La Cité Médiévale de Carcassonne
Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.
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Carcassonne, France
Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.
Livingston, Scotland
Scotland is filled with standing stones that date back hundreds or thousands of years. This is not one of them.
Deans, Scotland
A memorial commemorating the only Scottish police investigation into an extraterrestrial incident.
Saint Andrews, Scotland
"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."
Forres, Scotland
A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.
Glasgow, Scotland
Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These trenches were used to train the Scottish military for life on the frontlines of World War I.
Edinburgh, Scotland
It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Possibly the world's smallest museum is home to one exhibit that sheds light on the capital city's dark criminal history.
Manchester, England
A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.
Manchester, England
Since 2017, the remains of Stretford's industrial past have been occupied by a collection of gnomes.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.