Other sights in ScotlandScotland

A quartzite sea arch shaped like the tip of a fiddle bow just off Portknockie, best at dawn with fulmars riding the updraughts.

Moray

A hill in central Edinburgh crowned by the National Monument and Nelson Monument, giving classic panoramas of the city.

Edinburgh

McAlpine's 21-arch concrete curve of 1901 above Loch Shiel, now timed to the minute by Harry Potter fans waiting on the Jacobite steam train.

Highland

Skye's westernmost headland, a Stevenson lighthouse of 1909 at the end of a steep concrete path, with whales and basking sharks passing below the cliffs.

Highland

The largest sea-cave entrance in Britain, with a burn falling twenty metres through the roof of its inner chamber — half sea-carved, half dissolved.

Highland

The world's only rotating boat lift, linking the Forth & Clyde and Union canals near Falkirk.

Falkirk

Towering rock pinnacle on the Trotternish ridge above Loch Leathan, one of Skye's most famous walks.

Highland

The still-moving northern end of the Trotternish landslip — a looping path through pinnacles named the Needle, the Prison and the Table.

Highland

A 137-metre red sandstone sea stack, taller than the towers of the Forth Bridge and first climbed on live television in 1967.

Orkney Islands

Britain's greatest road climb, a hairpinned single-track pass rising over 600m with views to Skye and the Outer Hebrides.

Highland

Victorian Gothic tower on the Abbey Craig above Stirling commemorating William Wallace, with sweeping valley views.

Stirling

Celebrated viewpoint over Loch Tummel towards Schiehallion, with a Forestry visitor centre.

Perth and Kinross

Triple-arched stone bridge of 1810 framing the Black Cuillin, a classic Skye viewpoint and photo spot.

Highland

Andy Scott's 30-metre steel horse-head sculptures towering over the canal at the Helix, Falkirk.

Falkirk

Roadside viewpoint in Glen Coe facing the three great buttresses of Bidean nam Bian.

Highland

Third-largest whirlpool in the world, roaring in the tidal gulf between Jura and Scarba.

Argyll and Bute

Celebrated viewpoint over a curve of the Tweed to the three Eildon peaks, a favourite of Sir Walter Scott.

Scottish Borders

Towering pointed sea stacks rising off the cliffs a short walk south of Duncansby Head.

Highland

Waterfront museum around Scott's Antarctic research ship RRS Discovery, built in Dundee.

Dundee

The most northerly point of mainland Britain, a cliff-and-lochan RSPB reserve with a lighthouse and Orkney views.

Highland

Hilltop folly of 1782 built for General Sir Hector Munro to copy a gate at Negapatam in India, looking out over the Cromarty Firth.

Highland

The single-track road that turns off Glen Coe and runs twelve dead-end miles to the head of a sea loch — Skyfall borrowed it; the deer never left.

Highland

Grade-A Victorian railway station and pier of 1903 with a sweeping glass-roofed concourse, gateway to Bute.

Inverclyde

Scotland's longest and tallest aqueduct, carrying the Union Canal high above the River Avon near Linlithgow on twelve arches.

West Lothian

Steeply arched medieval bridge over the Don at Old Aberdeen, one of Scotland's oldest surviving bridges.

Aberdeen

Headland site of a great Pictish fort, with an early rock-cut well and sweeping Moray Firth views.

Moray

Ski and visitor area above Loch Morlich with a funicular railway, mountain exhibition and snow-sports slopes.

Highland

Scotland's largest regional park spanning Renfrewshire's moors and coast, with a visitor centre at Castle Semple.

Renfrewshire

Famous gravity-hill optical illusion on the A719 near Croy where a car appears to roll uphill.

South Ayrshire

A seventy-foot sandstone slot canyon running blood-red water over a mossy pulpit rock — famous from Outlander, and genuinely dangerous to enter.

Stirling

Classic U-shaped Angus glen leading to Loch Brandy and the Corrie Fee hills.

Angus

Clyde-coast seafront walk at Largs ending at the Pencil, a monument to the 1263 Battle of Largs, with Cumbrae views.

North Ayrshire

Rugged headland at Kintyre's southern tip, its lighthouse looking across to Ireland, made famous in song.

Argyll and Bute

Dramatic wooded river gorge with an NTS centre and the Soldier's Leap of 1689.

Perth and Kinross

One of Scotland's oldest harbours (1692), host of the annual Scottish Traditional Boat Festival.

Aberdeenshire

Shore and islets south of Glenelg, the real 'Camusfeàrna' of Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water.

Highland

The high hill above Unst's north coast, a former RAF radar site with sweeping views to Muckle Flugga.

Shetland Islands

A vast natural harbour ringed by Orkney's southern isles, a former naval anchorage and now a world-renowned wreck-dive site.

Orkney Islands

Graceful road bridge of 1995 arcing over the strait from Kyle of Lochalsh to Kyleakin.

Highland

Sheltered historic harbour ringed by old fishertown houses, home to the Tolbooth museum and Hogmanay fireballs.

Aberdeenshire

Museum and reconstructed Iron Age loch dwelling on the shore of Loch Tay at Kenmore.

Perth and Kinross

The UK's largest onshore windfarm on Eaglesham Moor, with a visitor centre and 130km of open trails.

East Renfrewshire

Scotland's only safari park, near Doune, with drive-through enclosures, a zoo and adventure rides.

Stirling

Heritage steam and diesel railway running along the Forth from Bo'ness, with the Museum of Scottish Railways.

Falkirk

Grassy headland (Rubha nam Bràithrean) reaching into the sea below Trotternish, with an old chapel site and dinosaur tracks.

Highland

Home of Britain's only free-ranging reindeer herd at Glenmore, with guided hill trips to meet the animals.

Highland

Vast coastal pine forest on stabilised dunes east of Nairn, laced with trails and a viewpoint tower over the firth.

Highland

A pocket landslip landscape of grassy cones and lochans above Uig, crowned by the basalt knuckle of Castle Ewen — no fairies required.

Highland