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

This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

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

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

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

Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

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

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

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

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.

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

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

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

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

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

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

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

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

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

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