Edinburgh, Scotland
Beltane Fire Festival
Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.
Birmingham, England
An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.
London, England
Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.
London, England
London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.
London, England
A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.
London, England
The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt
Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.
Qesm Hurghada, Egypt
A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.
Egypt
An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.
Alexandria, Egypt
Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.
Alexandria, Egypt
An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
At the turn of the 20th century, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to sensational public divorce trials.
Capa, South Dakota
A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.
Argonne, South Dakota
Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.
Kimball, South Dakota
An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.
Hill City, South Dakota
One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.
Conata, South Dakota
A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.
Corona, South Dakota
The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.
Lemmon, South Dakota
This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.
Vermillion, South Dakota
Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."
Lemmon, South Dakota
This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.