Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

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

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

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

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

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.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.