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A Neolithic burial tomb connected with a colorful array of legends.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

Modern megaliths form this work of cosmic, Celtic landscape art.

“It has nae lugs!”

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.