Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.

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

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

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

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

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

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

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

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

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

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.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

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

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

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

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

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

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.