Places Otherwyrld Wants to Go

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

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

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."