Spean Bridge, Scotland
Well of the Seven Heads
This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.
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Spean Bridge, Scotland
This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.
Highland, Scotland
A double cantilever system bridge that was designed to prevent flood damage.
Burghead, Scotland
Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.
Munlochy, Scotland
A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.
Inverness, Scotland
This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.
Edinburgh, Scotland
An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This stack of stones honors a murdered 18th-century woman.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This monument is dedicated to a young boy who survived a disaster that forced Edinburgh to reevaluate its building codes.
London, England
Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These plaques located in a court preserve a small piece of Edinburgh's history.
Ballachulish, Scotland
The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Glencoe, Scotland
A solemn memorial in a majestic setting that honors a 1692 tragedy.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.
Al Ula, Saudi Arabia
Lions carved into the rockface adorn these two tombs built into the mountains of Dadan.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Nestled among the living residents is the final resting place of an apothecary plague victim.