Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

The oldest library in Scotland was built from the remains of a church to hold a churchman's library.

This unusual rock looks like a giant, otherworldly mushroom sprouting atop a cave.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

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

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

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

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

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

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

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

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

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.