Évora, Portugal
Portugal’s Chapel of Bones
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
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Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Stirling, Scotland
The main residence of the Erskine family and the hereditary keeper of the nearby royal Stirling Castle.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The lasting remains of a bygone era of open-air meat markets.
Dunino, Scotland
A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.
Airdrie, Scotland
A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.
Ceres, Scotland
A well-traveled statuette of a much-beloved village icon.
Isle of Islay, Scotland
An unusually shaped lighthouse with origins rooted in heartbreak.
Isle of Islay, Scotland
This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.
Krakow, Poland
This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Krakow, Poland
This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.
Krakow, Poland
Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Krakow, Poland
St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.
Inveresk, Scotland
This 19th-century sanctuary was built atop a hill that once housed a Roman fort.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This statue stands as a message against the ills of Apartheid.
Inverkeithing, Scotland
Aside from denoting a public square or market, this medieval structure was also a sign of a town's prosperity.
Peebles, Scotland
An abandoned, desolate train tunnel that was used during World War II.
Highland, Scotland
A double cantilever system bridge that was designed to prevent flood damage.
Foyers, Scotland
A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales
Edinburgh, Scotland
A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.
Dunfermline, Scotland
Andrew Carnegie funded the building of almost 3,000 libraries across the world, this was the first.
Seton Mains, Scotland
The ruins of a 15th-century church once home to priests who prayed for a single family's salvation.