Visit the inspiration behind Dracula! If you fancy getting your teeth into some vampire hunting then there’s no better place to visit than Slains Castle at Cruden Bay. This spooky, […]

Visit the prison that held the famous Fittie Witch, and hear of her gruesome end… The Tolbooth Museum is one of Aberdeen’s oldest buildings and one of the best-preserved 17th […]

Archaeologists from National Museums Scotland and the University of Aberdeen’s Northern Picts project have recently unearthed a hoard of silver, coins and jewellery. In true treasure hunter style, the exact […]

Teeming with wildlife, the Ythan Estuary is a hidden gem right on Aberdeen’s doorstep Escape the city and swap the honk of car horns for the honk of Eider ducks […]

Go completely batty at the University of Aberdeen’s Zoology Museum! There are literally shelves full of the blighters, from the skeletons of flying foxes to preserved jars of spooky Malaysian […]

Take a stroll along the beach and past the harbour to one of the quirkiest communities in Scotland Footdee, or “Fittie” as it’s known locally, is F on our A-Z […]

Standing in all its grandeur on Roseburn Viaduct, His Majesty’s Theatre is probably the very first to have been built entirely of granite Constructed in 1906 and refurbished in 2005, […]

If you think furry boots are a form of winter gear, then maybe it’s time to polish up your Doric It’s the distinctive dialect you’ll hear as you wander around […]

Like most modern city centres, Aberdeen has more chain coffee shops than you can shake a skinny latte at, but C on our Secret Aberdeen list is deliciously different… If […]