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Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.

A glacial pothole was once a hideout for a notorious Scottish outlaw.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.