A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

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 tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

A free public golf course hides in plain sight in the heart of Scotland’s capital.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

The train that took the prime minister on his final journey now rests in a British museum.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

Scotland's oldest medieval bridge is also among the last reminders of early medieval Aberdeen.

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

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

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

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

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

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

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

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

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.