This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

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

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

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

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

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

An underground city of salt.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world is a verdant Scottish bulwark.