Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

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

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

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

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

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

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

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

A striking glass tribute to two sisters who suffered during Scotland's "Killing Time."