Places Spyros K Wants to Go

The artwork is tucked within a cave on a tiny Scottish island only accessible at low tide.

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

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

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

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

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

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

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

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

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

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

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

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

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

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

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

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

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

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

The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

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