Attraction in Scotland

Loch Ness in the Great Glen of the Scottish Highlands is the most famous lake in the world, its extraordinary dimensions, the depth and darkness of its waters and the enduring…

The Bass Rock is a volcanic island of dramatic appearance rising from the Firth of Forth near North Berwick in East Lothian, a 107-metre plug of basalt whose sheer white-encrusted…

Jarlshof at the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland is one of the most remarkable archaeological sites in Europe, a complex of superimposed settlements representing nearly four…

Dryburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders near Melrose is the most completely preserved and most romantically beautiful of the four great Border abbeys, a Premonstratensian monastery…

Burns Cottage in Alloway near Ayr in Ayrshire is the birthplace of Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, a thatched cottage of 1757 built by the poet's father William Burnes and…

Macduff Marine Aquarium is a small but remarkably engaging public aquarium situated on the northeastern coast of Scotland, in the historic fishing town of Macduff in…

The Ring of Brodgar on the Mainland of Orkney is one of the largest and most impressive Neolithic stone circles in Britain, a ring of originally sixty standing stones set within a…

St Fillans Cave, located at the coordinates 56.21325, -2.72758, sits within the coastal town of Pittenweem on the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. This is a genuine holy cave…

The Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm in Orkney is one of the most moving and most extraordinary small buildings in Britain, a chapel created by Italian prisoners of war interned on the…

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow is the most visited museum in Scotland and one of the most visited in the United Kingdom outside London, a magnificent red sandstone…

Handa Island off the northwest Sutherland coast near Scourie is one of the finest seabird colonies in Britain, a small uninhabited island accessible by ferry from Tarbet whose…

The coordinates 55.25003, -5.11285 place this location in the Firth of Clyde, corresponding to Ailsa Craig, a remarkable volcanic island and nature reserve rising dramatically…

Inverewe Garden near Poolewe in Wester Ross is the most extraordinary horticultural achievement in Scotland, a garden of over 2,500 plant species created by Osgood Mackenzie from…

The Glenfinnan Viaduct is the most celebrated piece of railway engineering in Scotland and one of the most famous in the world, a concrete viaduct of twenty-one arches carrying…

Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders is the finest Gothic ruin in Scotland, a Cistercian monastery of the twelfth century rebuilt in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries after…