Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

Scotland still bears an enormous scar of its Roman past.

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

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.

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

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

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

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

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

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

From here, the loch appears to take the shape of mainland Scotland.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

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

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

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

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

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.