Places mikeforsyth Wants to Go

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

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

The lake that fills and empties itself at random.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

A well-preserved 2nd century fort where moles are the archaeologists.

Scotland's oldest medieval bridge is also among the last reminders of early medieval Aberdeen.

The Titanic sails again in one Scotland man's backyard.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

Decaying 18th-century church converted to a single-family home.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

A glacial pothole was once a hideout for a notorious Scottish outlaw.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

Geodesic dome luxury retreat in the Scottish Highlands.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

Wonderfully preserved Victorian factory, complete with a preserved steam powered engine house.

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

A small literary museum remembers the life and works of the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.

This former small-town cinema palace was built with the remains of a luxury liner.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.