Places sarahltait Wants to Go

“It has nae lugs!”

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.

A trio of giant megalithic stones in the middle of a golf course.

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

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

Scotland still bears an enormous scar of its Roman past.

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

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

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

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

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

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

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

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

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

A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

Legend says this rock was once a chopping block for public executions.