Places emmeliamathews Wants to Go

A building-sized painting of the renowned 19th-century American abolitionist.

Recreations of a Norse longhouse and boat on Shetland's northernmost inhabited island.

This lovely Scottish nature walk leads to the source of a local legend.

The carved medieval stones stand near the ruined abbey's parking lot.

These wooden pipes were crucial to providing water to Medieval Edinburgh.

Legends surrounding this megalithic tomb range from giants to a dwarf named Trollid.

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

Wander around the extensive remains of this 12th-century medieval church.

The remnants of a classic 1970's British film.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

The ruins of a 15th-century church once home to priests who prayed for a single family's salvation.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

A rare permanent monument to the Scottish Travellers.

The United Kingdom's smallest working cathedral also serves as a quaint bed and breakfast.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.

The oldest library in Scotland was built from the remains of a church to hold a churchman's library.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

A mysterious ruin shrouded in more folklore than fact.

An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.

A whale's jawbone and a malfunctioning harpoon welcome you to the village of Bragar and its lore.