An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

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

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

A mysterious ruin shrouded in more folklore than fact.

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

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

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

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

These semi-natural waterfalls hint at the park's Victorian-era industrial past.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

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

A trio of giant megalithic stones in the middle of a golf course.

These mysterious religious carvings were once thought to be thousands of years old but are actually the work of modern eccentric.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

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

Legend says this rock was once a chopping block for public executions.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.

A historic cave in Scotland once served as a hiding place for a famous Covenanter.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.