The oldest church in Inverness witnessed the brutal executions of many Scottish soldiers.

Once considered one of the country's finest motte and bailey castles.

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

A reminder of the gruesome punishments delivered to those who were found guilty during Scotland's witchcraft trials.

These ruins saw a second life as a cemetery.

A double cantilever system bridge that was designed to prevent flood damage.

After 800 years, Europe's oldest elm tree has met its end.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

This lovely Scottish nature walk leads to the source of a local legend.

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

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

This rock bore witness to the last pitched battle fought on British soil.

The location of this historic castle was inspired by a donkey.

In the Scottish Highlands, this 13th-century castle ruin is hidden at the end of a farm track.

One of the most spectacular 18th-century bridges in Scotland.

Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.

A 4000-year-old stone circle, comfortably surrounded by a modern Scottish neighbourhood and the local fire station

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

A solemn memorial in a majestic setting that honors a 1692 tragedy.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.

Believed to be the capital of the the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata.

This collection of Neolithic monuments make up one of The U.K.'s richest archeological landscapes.

This Neolithic-era complex boasts standing stones, a cairn, and the only henge in Western Scotland.

No other place in Scotland has such a high concentration of prehistoric carved stone surfaces.