Ayr, Scotland
Scottish Dark Sky Observatory
This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.
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Ayr, Scotland
This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.
Glasgow, Scotland
Twenty carved heads in Glasgow take a comical, modern twist to the medieval apotropaic, avenger of evil.
Corgarff, Scotland
This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.
Portknockie, Scotland
Named for its similarity to the tip of a violin's bow, this striking formation was created by millions of years of erosion.
Elgin, Scotland
Once considered one of the country's finest motte and bailey castles.
Elgin, Scotland
A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."
Edinburgh, Scotland
Street names don't get more "late capitalism" than this.
Newton Mearns, Scotland
Attached to this castle is a local church.
Dundee, Scotland
Each section of this public work of art represents one of the city's guilds.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Visit the remains of a notorious Victorian-era correctional facility.
Glasgow, Scotland
An 18th-century religious argument etched into stone.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."
Glasgow, Scotland
Some believe that the stone once used to coronate Scottish kings resides inside this bar.
Budapest, Hungary
This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.
Tukwila, Washington
An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.
Marrakesh, Morocco
It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.
Marrakesh, Morocco
Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.
Marrakesh, Morocco
Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.
Cambridge, England
Cambridge’s century-old outdoor swimming pool is tied for being the longest pool in the United Kingdom, but it is also unusually narrow.
Crawford, Scotland
These crumbling ruins are all that's left of the ancestral home of Clan Crawford.
Anwoth, Scotland
The ruins of celebrated theologian Samuel Rutherford’s church, featured in a 1970s cult horror film.
Port Logan, Scotland
The oldest natural aquarium in the United Kingdom.
North Berwick, Scotland
The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The oldest floral clock in the world still functions today.