In pictures: Top 10 treasured places

A survey drawing of Lady Victoria Colliery, Midlothian. It stopped production in 1981 and now houses the Scottish Mining Museum (All pictures Crown Copyright RCAHMS)

A photograph of the weather vane at the Glasgow School of Art taken by Eric De Mare in 1960. The building is widely recognised as a Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece

King's College, Aberdeen, drawn by the architect Sir Basil Spence while he was a student in 1929. Named for King James IV, the college was founded in 1495

A photograph of a stained glass window in St Meddan's Church, Troon, which was built in 1888

The Falkirk Wheel photographed during its construction in 2001

A print of the plans for the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The building was eventually opened in 1901

This photograph, taken in 1930, shows the archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe during the excavation of Skara Brae in Orkney. The Neolithic village dates back 5,000 years

The Standing Stones of Stenness in Orkney photographed between 1901 and 1917 by James Ritchie

The much-reviled Cumbernauld town centre. The bold architecture received international acclaim when it first opened

A lithograph drawn by the architect John Lessels in the early 1860s of Rosslyn Chapel long before it appeared in Dan Brown's novel

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