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The world's spiciest ice cream comes from Glasgow.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

The abandoned transportation hub hides within the Glasgow attraction it once served.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

These ruins are a hidden gem, complete with fantastic views over the cliff edge.

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

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

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

A fernery hidden by neglect is uncovered, and an ancient specimen along with it.