Melrose Abbey is one of the finest medieval ruins in Britain. The roofless nave and soaring window tracery are extraordinary in red sandstone, the scale is surprising, and the detail, carved foliage, grotesque gargoyles, a cook holding a ladle on the roof ridge, rewards time and close looking.
Robert the Bruce's heart was buried beneath the nave in 1330. It was rediscovered in 1998 and is marked in the grounds. A genuinely significant place, not just an atmospheric one.