This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

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

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Locals say Williams's ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

The last of its kind in the country.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

A granite rock formation littered with various species of moss, lichen, and fern.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The narrowest street in Paris.