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This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

A tongue-in-cheek marker at the place where Robert Barr supposedly created Scotland’s favorite soft drink.

This townhouse was once the original home of the Scottish Football Association.

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

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

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

This ancient holy well is older than much of the city that surrounds it.

One of the city's oldest pubs displays a skull said to belong to the country's last witch burned at the stake.

The pub has been in operation since 1819 on the banks of the Clyde.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

This hidden gem reveals the history of Britain's first police force.

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

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

Despite the name, this 16th-century structure in Galway wasn't built by the Spanish.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

These sculptures honor the knights who once called Carrickfergus Castle their stronghold.

An abandoned shipping control tower looks like a satellite perched at the end of a pier.

A small plaque highlights the damage caused by German air raids during World War II.

Originally commissioned as a sculpture to reflect the history of Belfast's red-light district, the final sculpture has been banned from Belfast public land.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."