Paris, France
Le Défenseur du Temps (The Defender of Time)
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
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Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Anstruther, Scotland
Stay in the one time home to one of Scotland's most notorious gentleman's sex clubs.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.
Elie, Scotland
The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.
Newtonmore, Scotland
A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.
Traquair, Scotland
The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.
Glenfinnan, Scotland
A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.
Isle of Barra, Scotland
This beach runway is off limits during high tide.
Ayr, Scotland
Wonderfully preserved Victorian factory, complete with a preserved steam powered engine house.
Melrose, Scotland
The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.
Invergordon, Scotland
Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
Orkney, Scotland
A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.
Baltasound, Scotland
This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.
Glasgow, Scotland
This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.
Foyers, Scotland
A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales
Liddel, Scotland
This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.
Maybole, Scotland
An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.
Paisley, Scotland
The strange behavior of a tween led to allegations of witchcraft and a curse being placed on anybody within earshot.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.