The site of the first international football match.

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

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

Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

The artwork mysteriously appeared within an Edinburgh cemetery.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall houses an incredible collection of ornate, centuries-old keyboards.

Nestled among the living residents is the final resting place of an apothecary plague victim.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.

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

In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.