Attraction in Scotland

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…

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…

Glenshee Ski Centre on the slopes of Cairnwell in the Cairngorm Mountains between Braemar and Blairgowrie is the largest ski area in Britain, a network of runs on four mountains…

New Lanark is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the banks of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire, a planned cotton mill community of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth…

The Falkirk Wheel in central Scotland is a rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, built as the centrepiece of the Millennium Link project to…

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…

The Loch Lomond Bird of Prey Centre is a falconry and raptor display attraction located in the Trossachs and Loch Lomond region of Scotland, offering visitors the opportunity to…

Smoo Cave near Durness at the very northwest corner of Scotland is the largest sea cave on the British mainland, a three-chambered cave system cut into the Durness limestone by…

The Falkirk Wheel is one of the most remarkable pieces of engineering in Britain, a unique rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal at Falkirk…

Muckle Flugga is a small, dramatic rocky islet situated at the very northern tip of Unst, which is itself the northernmost of the Shetland Islands. Perched atop its wave-lashed…

Cairngorm Mountain at 1,245 metres is the sixth highest summit in Britain and the highest peak within the Cairngorm massif that forms the core of the Cairngorms National Park in…

The Boddin Point Lime Kilns stand as striking industrial monuments on the rugged Angus coastline, remnants of a once-thriving lime-burning industry that served the agricultural…

The Kelpies are two enormous steel horse heads rising thirty metres from the Forth and Clyde Canal at the Helix Park near Falkirk, the largest equine sculptures in the world and…