This 17th-century Bhutanese monastery is ensconced in Buddhist legend.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

The world's most remote airport.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

The ruins of a once-grand mansion in Northern Ireland are now thought to be haunted.

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

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.