Best Things Across The UK

Caerphilly Castle: Wales's Largest, with a Leaning Tower That Beats Pisa Caerphilly's leaning tower tilts more dramatically than the one in Pisa. It is not as tall and it is not as famous, but as a structural consequence of a failed Civil War demolition...

Blackness Castle: The Ship That Never Sailed, Above the Firth of Forth From the south shore of the Firth of Forth, Blackness Castle looks as though it has run aground. The pointed prow at the north end, the square stern at the south, the tall central tower rising like...

Dalhousie Castle: The Medieval Hotel Where Cromwell Slept, Eight Miles from Edinburgh King Edward I used it as a staging post during his campaigns against Scotland. Oliver Cromwell occupied it briefly during the English Civil War. Sir Walter Scott was a guest. Queen...

Ballindalloch Castle: The Pearl of the North, Home to the Macpherson-Grants Since 1546 According to local tradition, the original laird of Ballindalloch chose the wrong site for his castle. Everything he built during the day was mysteriously demolished by the...

Floors Castle: Scotland's Largest Inhabited Castle, Above the River Tweed When the 1st Duke of Roxburghe needed a new house in 1721, he turned to William Adam — the architect who would later father Robert Adam and establish the most celebrated architectural...

Dunvegan Castle: The Fairy Flag, Eight Hundred Years of MacLeod and the Loch of Skye The Chiefs of Clan MacLeod have lived at Dunvegan Castle for over 800 years. Not visited occasionally, not returned to — lived in, continuously, for more than eight centuries. No...