Places sarahltait Wants to Go

An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.

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

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

A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.

Modern megaliths form this work of cosmic, Celtic landscape art.

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

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

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

The oldest library in Scotland was built from the remains of a church to hold a churchman's library.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

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

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

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

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

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

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

This ethereal, rainforest-like gorge is home to waterfalls, quaint bridges, and fairy folk.