This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

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

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

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

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

The main feature of these gardens is a rarity in the northernmost part of Scotland: trees.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

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

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

The 5,000-year-old megalith is believed to be Scotland's tallest standing stone.

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

Unusually, this ancient Iron Age broch has never been excavated.

The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

The ruins of a defunct limestone quarry still haunt this Scottish promontory.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.

Legends surrounding this megalithic tomb range from giants to a dwarf named Trollid.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.