Munlochy, Scotland
Clootie Well
A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.
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Munlochy, Scotland
A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.
Wick, Scotland
The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.
Dunnet, Scotland
The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.
Heilam, Scotland
The ruins of a defunct limestone quarry still haunt this Scottish promontory.
Durness, Scotland
A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past
Keoldale, Scotland
The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.
Inverness, Scotland
This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The rusting remnants of a flying boat lie scattered near the site of its fatal crash.
Isle of Barra, Scotland
This beach runway is off limits during high tide.
Sandwick, Scotland
A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.
Sumburgh, Scotland
This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.
Baltasound, Scotland
This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.
Lambholm, Scotland
This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.
Stromness, Scotland
Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."
Liddel, Scotland
This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.
Finstown, Scotland
Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.
Birsay, Scotland
This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.
Stromness, Scotland
Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.
Orkney, Scotland
The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.
Sunderland, England
An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.
Sunderland, England
This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.
Monkwearmouth, England
This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.
Sunderland, England
This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.
Seaham, England
Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.