Places Jfmcl Wants to Go

A historic cave in Scotland once served as a hiding place for a famous Covenanter.

This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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

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

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."

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

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

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Enter this small nook and you'll be surrounded by 360 degrees of street art.

These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

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

Modern megaliths form this work of cosmic, Celtic landscape art.

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

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

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

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

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

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

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

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.