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.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This ruined castle is said to be the legendary keep of a Viking princess.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.

The oldest church in Inverness witnessed the brutal executions of many Scottish soldiers.

An angelic, yet demonic-looking figurine presides over one of Glasgow's most ancient streets.

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

A brother statue swap has adorned this building's facade for centuries.

A small collection of objects of a bygone era hide in plain view.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

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

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

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

An 18th-century religious argument etched into stone.

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

This ancient holy well is older than much of the city that surrounds it.

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

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

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