The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

A remnant of the Roman army's presence on the coast of Scotland.

A solemn memorial in a majestic setting that honors a 1692 tragedy.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

A watchhouse constructed from tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for the victims succumbing to a deadly disease.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.