This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

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

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

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

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

Long abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

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

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.