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

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

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

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

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

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

Museum of amazing old toys and automata.

A magnificent, long-abandoned castle built in the wake of the reconquest of Spain.

The remains of the second-oldest zoo in Europe can be seen within these library gardens.

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

A celebration of solstice followed by a fiery purging of evils.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.

Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.