Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

A memorial dedicated to a boating accident that was bringing troops back home from World War I.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

A free public golf course hides in plain sight in the heart of Scotland’s capital.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

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

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

Once home to a Scottish baronet, this 18th-century historic house doubles as a legendary art space.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

A colorful mural decorates one of the city's oldest animal shelters.

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

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

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

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

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 vessel is the final ocean-going paddle steamer in the world.

This mural condenses 96 miles of one of Scotland's best-known trails into a unique art display.