What the top 50 tourist attractions are by number of annual visitors.

The latest available figuresare for 2005. In 2005, the top 50 tourist attractions by number of annual visitorswere as follows:
Visitor Attraction
| Visitor Numbers

Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh
| 1,187,342

Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
| 828,367

National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
| 810,054

World Famous Old Blacksmith’s Shop Centre, Gretna Green
| 679,132

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh
| 619,946

Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh
| 614,321

National War Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
| 567,744

Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
| 530,751

Edinburgh Bus Tours, Edinburgh
| 458,963

Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow
| 422,848

Museum of Transport, Glasgow
| 376,115

Stirling Castle, Stirling
| 373,766

New Lanark Village and Visitor Centre, Lanark
| 362,850

Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Glasgow
| 350,000

People’s Palace, Glasgow
| 342,904

David Welch Winter Gardens, Aberdeen
| 319,905

Falkirk Wheel, Falkirk
| 298,562

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
| 279,717

Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
| 273,279

Royal Yacht Britannia, Edinburgh
| 265,659

Burns National Heritage Park, Ayr
| 264,247

Deep Sea World, North Queensferry
| 260,000

Dean Castle and Country Park, Kilmarnock
| 257,857

Eilean Donan Castle and Visitor Centre, by Kyle of Lochalsh
| 257,240