The 20th-century chapel’s intricate woodwork includes amazing details, most notably angels playing bagpipes.

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

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

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

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.

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

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

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

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

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

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

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

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

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.