Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

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

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

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

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.

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

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

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

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."

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