This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

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

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

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

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

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

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

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

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.