These sculptures of various animals adorn the building that houses one of the capital's least known museums.

The last remaining bottle-shaped kilns in Scotland stand alone in an Edinburgh suburb.

This stack of stones honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

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

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

Located behind the Riverside Pub is a nautical fantasy from one of the area's renowned street artists.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

The last fully working Victorian Turkish bath in England.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

Hidden in this modern shopping center is a relic of 16th-century capital punishment.

This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

These skilfully executed, poignant works of art dot a verdant Scottish dell.

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

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

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

The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.