Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

A public art installation with a nautical themed poem, enhances this pedestrian street.

This city square dates back to the Scottish Enlightenment and was home to some of Scotland's brightest minds.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

A recreation of pop art pioneer Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi's London studio.

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

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

This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

A memorial to a 19th-century fishing disaster that had deep repercussions across Shetland.

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

Legend has it that a Dutch fisherman lost control of his Shetland pony and tumbled from this cliff.

This memorial celebrates the legacy of the British-Norwegian resistance movement during World War II.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

This former chapel resides on an island connected to the mainland by one of Shetland's iconic beachy tombolos.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.