Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Geodesic dome luxury retreat in the Scottish Highlands.

This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

A 17th-century building that once served as the town's courthouse and jail is now a thriving art center.

The first woman in America to receive a medical degree.

A circle made up of 19 boulders has stood in Scotland's Bladnoch Valley for some 4,000 years.

This impressive midden of scallop shells apparently all comes from a single fishing company.

A beachside cave filled with Bronze Age metalwork, pottery, and human remains.

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

This sculpture commemorates Edinburgh's sister city and their respective celebrity dogs.

A weird and wonderful collection of items that pique curiosity and haunt nightmares.

Another entry into the world of Edinburgh's pop-up artworks.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

This brilliant display of whirling fireballs celebrates Hogmanay.

Neon artworks light up this dark Edinburgh tunnel.

An iconic red telephone box turned tiny art gallery.

This eclectic sanctuary is a hodgepodge of various architectural styles, all crammed into one building.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.