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These ancient symbols freckling a Scottish cliff remained hidden for centuries.

This rare surviving broch is one of Scotland's most impressive Bronze Age structures.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

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

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.

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

Modern megaliths form this work of cosmic, Celtic landscape art.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

This enchanting hill is home to fairy lore and a sinister local mystery.

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

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

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

This ethereal, rainforest-like gorge is home to waterfalls, quaint bridges, and fairy folk.

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

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

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

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.