This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

An ingenious way to immortalize the inventor of universal time.

This town hosts 170 pieces of public art, including giant irises, flying saucers, and, famously, hippos.

Built in the 16th century, the tower is now in ruins.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

A ruined Scottish tower house with a laird-turned-fugitive's legend

This unusual rock looks like a giant, otherworldly mushroom sprouting atop a cave.

The half-finished remains of what would have been Scotland’s biggest piece of landscape art.

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

The initials "GW" mark where one of Scotland's most important Protestant martyrs was burned at the stake.

Scotland's claim to the prime meridian was laid 200 years prior to the one in Greenwich.

This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.

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

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

“It has nae lugs!”

A beautiful medieval bridge allegedly constructed by the Devil.

A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

A unique sculpture cemetery dedicated to the region's defunct businesses.