Despite what a Thai tourism board might want you to think, this white-sand beach is in fact located on a Scottish island.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.

The ruins of a 15th-century church once home to priests who prayed for a single family's salvation.

The former seat of power for the Balliol dynasty.

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.

This Neolithic stone circle is the most complete of its kind in Scotland.

Glasgow's memorial to the International Brigade volunteers from Great Britain who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War.

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.

A quartet of brightly colored mythical beasts stand sentry at this gateway.

This severely painted building has a twisted connection to the witch hunts of the 1640s.

Inside this cathedral is a shoulder bone belonging to the Patron Saint of Scotland.

This monument is dedicated to a young boy who survived a disaster that forced Edinburgh to reevaluate its building codes.

The rusting remnants of a flying boat lie scattered near the site of its fatal crash.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

The small Scottish townhouse where the "Father of the National Parks" was born.

This monument dedicated to the legendary American showman can be found in Scotland's largest city.

This small memorial honors a ferocious feline and local hero.

The half-finished remains of what would have been Scotland’s biggest piece of landscape art.

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

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

This ordinary-looking mailbox has a rather explosive history.

A former coastal watch post has been turned into a bothy with unrivaled views of the sea and its inhabitants.