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

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.

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

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

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

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

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

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

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

The 18th-century inspiration behind Harry Potter's Sorting Hat.

A mythological Celtic beast built with thousands of colorful tiles stands guard over a historic canal junction.

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past

A monument to one of the most famous modernist Chinese poems and its poet.

Named after a lodging site that existed nearby, a bridge has existed at this location since 1455.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

A haunting monument dedicated to the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.