This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

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.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

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

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

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

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

Long abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

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

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.