Şırnak Province, Turkey
Mount Judi
A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.
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Şırnak Province, Turkey
A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.
Gaziantep, Turkey
A beautiful 19th-century Armenian mansion is preserved above an unassuming cafe.
Istanbul, Turkey
An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.
Manazan, Turkey
Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.
Burghead, Scotland
Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.
Paisley, Scotland
The strange behavior of a tween led to allegations of witchcraft and a curse being placed on anybody within earshot.
Foyers, Scotland
A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales
Spean Bridge, Scotland
This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.
Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.
Birsay, Scotland
This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.
Machrie, Scotland
More stones than Stonehenge, all scattered within a windswept landscape sure to enchant 'Outlander' fans.
Scotland
Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.
Lerwick, Scotland
During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.
Lendalfoot, Scotland
Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.
Fortingall, Scotland
Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.
Glasgow, Scotland
Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.
Sandwick, Scotland
A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.
Scotland
A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.