The largest terracotta fountain in the world, built to commemorate Britain’s Victorian achievements.

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

This mountain is one of the largest in Scotland but is better known for its hollow insides.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

Described by William Wordsworth as a "World of Wonder."

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

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

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

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

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

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

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

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 Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.