This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

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

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

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

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

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

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

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

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

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

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

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

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland's second largest island emit an entrancing sound.