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

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

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

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

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.