See and do

The only steam railway in south west Scotland, it's a 'living museum' of industrial steam and diesel trains

Beloved Scottish bard Robert Burns learned to dance and debate in this authentically restored house

A monument commemorating the final resting place of the Russian cruising vessel, the Varyag, which ran aground off the Ayrshire coast

The Barony A Frame is a preserved headgear in East Ayrshire

Rumoured home of the notorious 15th-century cannibal Sawney Bean and his incestuous clan

Penkill Castle is a 16th-century castle north-east of Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland.

Seagate Castle is a castle in North Ayrshire, in the town of Irvine, close to the River Irvine

The Boswell Quill is situated in Auchinleck’s historic churchyard and celebrates writer James Boswell, the inventor of modern biography.

Trinity Church was designed by Edinburgh architect Frederick Thomas Pilkington in 1863

Monument memorialising Lesley Baillie, a muse who inspired several of Robert Burns' ballads and poems

Darvel is a small town in East Ayrshire, on the right bank of the River Irvine.

Not to be confused with The Wallace Monument in Stirling, the Wallace Tower in Ayr predates its Stirling sibling by approximately a decade (1855-7)

Colmonell is a small village and civil parish in the Stinchar Valley, South Ayrshire, Scotland.

The town of Prestwick is situated in South Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland.

The Harbour Arts Centre is situated by the picturesque Irvine Harbourside.