The largest public library in the United Kingdom was designed to reflect the industrial and artistic history of the city where it stands.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

One of the most spectacular 18th-century bridges in Scotland.

A glacial pothole was once a hideout for a notorious Scottish outlaw.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.

These skilfully executed, poignant works of art dot a verdant Scottish dell.

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

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

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

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

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.