The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

The beloved bard's garb is proudly displayed within a Freemason's hall.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

A series of three shiny letters mark the boundary of an old refuge for those being pursued by debt collectors.

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

This vintage gem is one of the oldest surviving purpose-built movie palaces in Scotland.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

In the depths of Glasgow Cathedral's crypt, one pillar stands out from all others.

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

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.