Historic Scotland & National Trust for Scotland places in Falkirk

The ship that never sailed: James V's 15th-century artillery fortress and state prison on a promontory in the Firth of Forth, with towers, curtain wall, pier and Outlander fame; adult £8.50, £7.50 online, half price in the first EH year.

A Hamilton family mansion of the 1550s and 1670s with rare Renaissance wall paintings, beside the Antonine Wall and James Watt's workshop in Bo'ness; estate free all year, interior on summer tours.

The best preserved fort on the Antonine Wall, with the Wall's tallest surviving rampart and rows of Roman stake pits, near Bonnybridge; free and open at all times, a short walk from the car park or the Falkirk Wheel.

The best preserved stretch of the Antonine Wall's Roman road, with the rampart and a huge ditch, in an oak wood beside the Forth and Clyde Canal near Bonnybridge; free and open at all times.

Perhaps the best preserved stretch of the Antonine Wall's great ditch, almost at its Roman size, beside Tamfourhill Road in Falkirk; free and open at all times, with roadside parking.

A well preserved lectern dovecot with a 1647 heraldic panel, now the centrepiece of a 1930s model village at Westquarter near Falkirk; free, seen from outside at any time.

An 18th-century summerhouse topped by a 14-metre stone pineapple, with a free walled garden, orchard and pond walk near Airth.