within the waterways of xochimilco lies a local legend.d you will find among a few small huts a place which some say is cursed. welcome to the island of dolls. this strange little place has become a massive tourist attraction, but its origins are actually pretty dark. so, around 70 years ago, a young girl drowned nearby, and so the island's owner started placing dolls around here for her spirit to play with. but the story gets much weirder than that. after filling the entire island with dolls, the owner himself died in the exact same spot as the young girl. it is said he spent 50 years adding to the collection of dolls here before his own mysterious death in 2001. definitely not the kind of place i'd want to spend the night alone. so it's probably for the best then that you can't actually sleep here, but you can visit the island as part of a day tour of xochimilco's waterways. it's not one for the faint hearted. i've never been to a place like this before. with good reason. it's absolutely terrifying. it's a great natural setting for a hor

then that you can't actually sleep here, but you can visit the island as part of a day tour of xochimilcohearted. i've never been to a place like this before. with good reason. it's absolutely terrifying. it's a great natural setting for a horror movie. standing in the midst of the stunning scottish wilderness for the past 2,000 years, these mysterious stone structures are a symbol of scotland's unique archaeological past. known as a broch, the exact purpose of these iconic iron age ruins is still unknown. however, a group of experimental archaeologists believe that an ambitious project to build a broch from scratch could finally help us to better understand their past. a broch is a huge iron age structure made completely of dry stone with walls five metres thick. we don't have a name for the tribes of people that lived here, and that's perhaps part of the mystery of what a broch was used for. the current academic thinking is that they were houses, houses with five metres thick walls and 13 metres high. still, after hundreds of years of archaeology, we're not entirely sure we have a moder

then that you can't actually sleep here, but you can visit the island as part of a day tour of xochimilco'sexperimental archaeologists believe that an ambitious project to build a broch from scratch could finally help us to better understand their past. a broch is a huge iron age structure made completely of dry stone with walls five metres thick. we don't have a name for the tribes of people that lived here, and that's perhaps part of the mystery of what a broch was used for. the current academic thinking is that they were houses, houses with five metres thick walls and 13 metres high. still, after hundreds of years of archaeology, we're not entirely sure we have a modern perception of what buildings are the most complete. broch still standing is mousa. mousa broch is the most intact broch that we have. it does, of course, have a secondary structure from a later occupation phase built inside it. but we do have a good sense of what a broch may have been in its completed form. dry stone towers of that size, and you especially see it with mousa, it's a difficult endeavour to begin with to bui