The beloved war-time celebrity spent time in the area before retiring to the Edinburgh Zoo.

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

Forgotten jail cells beneath this Scottish town hall are now used for delightfully artful storage.

Originally intended as a temporary installation, this sculpture is now a permanent part of a stunning Scottish beach.

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

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

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

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

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

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

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

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

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

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.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.