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

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

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

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

Brass bricks outline the locations of Edinburgh's lost, lively market stalls.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

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

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past

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

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.

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

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

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

Recreations of a Norse longhouse and boat on Shetland's northernmost inhabited island.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

This former chapel resides on an island connected to the mainland by one of Shetland's iconic beachy tombolos.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.