DK Travel : Scotland : Editor's choice

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Scottish Crannog Centre

The little-known and ancient art of building crannogs (defensive homesteads built on stilts in lochs) has been rediscovered here at Loch Tay. Beware – underwater archaeologists at work.
Scottish Fisheries Museum

It’s hard to believe just how fascinating boats, nets and fish can be. First-class overview of the history of the fish supper.
Scottish Mining Museum

Don your headlamp and join ex-miners on an enlightening underground tour.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Look Robert Burns, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Queen Mother in the eye. Portraits through the ages, housed in a Gothic shrine.
Scottish Seabird Centre

Remote cameras relay live action from the Bass Rock’s 100,000 gannets. Take time for a boat trip around the headland too.
Scott’s View

Sir Walter Scott’s favourite view of the River Tweed and Eildon Hills. Out of habit, his horse stopped here during Scott’s funeral procession.
Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery

Eduard Bersudsky makes performing contraptions from junk, and this is his extraordinary theatre.
Smoo Cave, Durness

Remarkable natural cavern beside the sea. You can walk in a little way, but a floodlit boat tour is best.
St Abb’s Head

A national nature reserve on dramatic cliffs packed with birds. Don’t miss the characterful town of St Abbs, with its excellent fishery museum.
St Kilda

Scotland’s first World Heritage Site, this archipelago of monumental cliffs was, until 1930, inhabited by a highly individual community who lived off the islands’ millions of sea-birds. Such is St Kilda’s isolation that it has its own subspecies of mouse, wren and sheep. Hard to get to, but if you can it’ll touch your soul.