Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.

The strange behavior of a tween led to allegations of witchcraft and a curse being placed on anybody within earshot.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall."

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

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

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.