Every New Year's Day, locals don gaudy costumes and dive into the frigid Firth of Forth.

This enormous, elaborate tomb looks oddly out of place next to a suburban Edinburgh bowling club.

The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.

Glasgow's memorial to the International Brigade volunteers from Great Britain who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War.

This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

A 16th-century castle unexpectedly nestled within a post-war housing development.

This ordinary-looking mailbox has a rather explosive history.

The medley of artwork tells the history of this Scottish town.

This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

This hidden gem reveals the history of Britain's first police force.

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.

The ruins of a 15th-century church once home to priests who prayed for a single family's salvation.

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.

A curious structure built just for the birds.

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

People leave coins atop an unusual grave marker in one of Scotland's oldest burial grounds.

This brilliant display of whirling fireballs celebrates Hogmanay.

This sculpture commemorates Edinburgh's sister city and their respective celebrity dogs.

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

The rusting remnants of a flying boat lie scattered near the site of its fatal crash.

This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.