Places Jfmcl Wants to Go

A historic shipbuilding town is home to a sail-through fish-and-chips shop.

It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.

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

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

This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

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

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

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

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

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

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

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

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

Across the islands, baked goods, sauces, and much more are for sale 24/7.

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

A famous pilgrimage site that remains hidden in the midst of a city.