This stately bank building hides a spectacular star-studded ceiling.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

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

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

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.

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

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

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

The strange behavior of a tween led to allegations of witchcraft and a curse being placed on anybody within earshot.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

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

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

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

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

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