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Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.

This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.

Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

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

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

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

A community's effort restores the historical Maryhill Burgh Hall.

This former football stadium seems almost abandoned but is still in use by the next generation of Scottish sports stars.