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This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

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.

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

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

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

A guitar mounted on a wall in Temple Bar honors the Irish musician.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Grab a pint of British-brewed ale or cider and a hot roast pork bap at this quintessential London pub.

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.

Some of the best renditions of traditional British dishes can be found on the site of a 15th-century inn.

Run by the same people as a subterranean art space, this pub does double-duty as a Cave of Wonders.

An oddity of a bygone era that stills functions today.

Tucked away in a London Tube station, this 1920s linear clock shows the time across the world all at once.

This is London's smallest listed building.

Likely the first car with an internal combustion engine constructed in the United Kingdom.

A small stone monument marks the spot on Stavely Road where the first of hundreds of missiles touched down during World War II.