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This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

These ruins are a hidden gem, complete with fantastic views over the cliff edge.

This eclectic sanctuary is a hodgepodge of various architectural styles, all crammed into one building.

A mysterious ruin shrouded in more folklore than fact.

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.

This enormous, elaborate tomb looks oddly out of place next to a suburban Edinburgh bowling club.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall houses an incredible collection of ornate, centuries-old keyboards.

From here, the loch appears to take the shape of mainland Scotland.

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

These skilfully executed, poignant works of art dot a verdant Scottish dell.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

The 20th-century chapel’s intricate woodwork includes amazing details, most notably angels playing bagpipes.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

The rusting remnants of a flying boat lie scattered near the site of its fatal crash.

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

Every New Year's Day, locals don gaudy costumes and dive into the frigid Firth of Forth.

In the depths of Glasgow Cathedral's crypt, one pillar stands out from all others.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

A weird and wonderful collection of items that pique curiosity and haunt nightmares.

This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.

The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.