Highlands & Islands
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A moated ring of sandstone in the middle of Rothesay, taken twice by Norway’s kings and later a royal castle of the Stewarts. Its name lives on in the title Duke of Rothesay, still held by the heir to the throne.
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A cross-shaped setting of Lewisian gneiss raised before the main circle at Stonehenge, and ticketed for the first time in 2026. Here is its history, its satellite circles and how to visit.
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Skye’s most westerly lighthouse was built in 1909 for £4,350, automated in 1990 and is reached by a stepped path above unfenced cliffs. Here is its story and how to walk it.
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A tower house on a tidal islet in Loch Laich, lost in a drunken wager for a rowing boat, besieged by Jacobites, left roofless for a century, then rebuilt by one family’s own hands. Monty Python fans know it as Castle Aaargh.
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The Campbells of Glenorchy’s lochside fortress, later a barracks for 200 men, now one of the most photographed ruins in Scotland. Free to walk to, but the famous view isn’t from the castle, and the inside is currently closed.
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The most photographed railway bridge in Scotland was a pioneering engineering experiment before it was a Harry Potter icon — here’s the real history behind Concrete Bob’s viaduct, and exactly where to park and stand for the shot.
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A thousand years of history, a ruined gatehouse whose famous 1692 explosion is more disputed than the legend admits, and one of the best-placed views on Loch Ness — here’s how to actually get parked and inside.
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Scotland’s largest stone circle, free to visit year-round, sits at the centre of a Neolithic landscape that’s still actively being excavated — including a real Time Team dig that returned to the site in July 2026.
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A storm uncovered it in 1850, and it’s been rewriting the timeline of prehistoric Britain ever since — here’s what makes Orkney’s Neolithic village older than Stonehenge, and everything you need to visit it.
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A glen famous twice over: the road where Bond drove his Aston Martin in Skyfall, and the site of one of the most treacherous massacres in Scottish history, 300 years apart.