Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

From here, the loch appears to take the shape of mainland Scotland.

In 1396, two Scottish clans that had been violently feuding for centuries finally faced off in a bloody battle in this park.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

A remote island holds what claims to be Scotland's smallest cinema.

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

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

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

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

These mysterious religious carvings were once thought to be thousands of years old but are actually the work of modern eccentric.

Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.

This single-track road rewards brave drivers with stunning Scottish scenery.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world is a verdant Scottish bulwark.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.

An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.