The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The home of two of Scotland's most important artists has been reassembled in the Hunterian Art Gallery.

An impressive piece of infrastructure that seems outsized when considering it serves an island with a population of less than 300.

Inscribed on the gate are the names of 29 figures from the University's first five centuries.

This museum offers a glimpse into early 20th-century Glasgow life.

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.

Inside this art museum resides one of Glasgow's most famous musical instruments.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

The longest staircase lock in Britain.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This ruined castle is said to be the legendary keep of a Viking princess.

A Bronze Age burial site thought to be over 4000 years old