Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

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

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

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

This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.

The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world is a verdant Scottish bulwark.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

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

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.