Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This collection of Neolithic monuments make up one of The U.K.'s richest archeological landscapes.

This Neolithic-era complex boasts standing stones, a cairn, and the only henge in Western Scotland.

A sculpture commemorating the "world's best mouser" in what is likely Scotland's longest-running distillery

This monument depicts a harrowing event involving an escaped polar bear.

These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

The remnants of a facade from a 19th-century market stall emporium.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

The carved medieval stones stand near the ruined abbey's parking lot.

More than a century old, this cast iron bridge on the Balmoral Estate leads to nowhere.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

A pair of mosaics marks the spot where the last accused witch of Dundee was put to death.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.

Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.

Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

The sign announces the Scottish village's cosmic connections, as it's twinned with Glenelg, Mars.