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Beamish

Beamish, England

Beamish, the Living Museum of the North

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

Sanquhar Castle

Sanquhar, Scotland

Sanquhar Castle

A 13th-century stronghold that has fallen into ruin.

Wanlockhead Beam Engine

Wanlockhead, Scotland

Wanlockhead Beam Engine

The last water-powered beam pumping engine in Britain.

Lowther Hill Radar Station

Wanlockhead, Scotland

Lowther Hill Radar Station

Though it looks like a golf ball teed up for a hit, this hilltop station is actually used to monitor air traffic.

The ram with "nae lugs."

Moffat, Scotland

The Moffat Ram

“It has nae lugs!”

Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0 by John Phillips

Maybole, Scotland

Electric Brae Gravity Hill Illusion

An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.

Scottish Dark Sky Observatory.
Permanently Closed

Ayr, Scotland

Scottish Dark Sky Observatory

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

The cave.

Lendalfoot, Scotland

Sawney Bean's Cave

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

Varyag Memorial Cross

Lendalfoot, Scotland

Varyag Memorial

A monument to a Russian cruiser near its final resting place off the Ayrshire Coast.

The masonry wall entrance to Snib's Cave

Lendalfoot, Scotland

Snib's Cave

Near this coastal cave stands a small memorial to the hermit who made it his home for three decades.

Port Logan Fish Pond

Port Logan, Scotland

Port Logan Fish Pond

The oldest natural aquarium in the United Kingdom.

Looking out to sea where pilgrims would have landed.

Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Chapel Finian

Named after a 6th-century saint, who was also a scholar.

The steep sided mottehill

Mochrum, Scotland

Druchtag Mote

Nine hundred years ago, this was the home of a feudal lord. Today all that remains is a steep mound surrounded by a deep moat.

Drumtroddan Standing Stones

Mochrum, Scotland

Drumtroddan Standing Stones

These stones date back to the 3rd or 2nd millennium B.C.

Within the flat enclose of the D-shaped fort

Monreith, Scotland

Barsalloch Fort

A 2,000-year-old Iron Age fort offers stunning ocean views.

'Wicker Man' Stumps

Cutcloy, Scotland

'Wicker Man' Stumps

The remnants of a classic 1970's British film.

Sorbie Tower

Sorbie, Scotland

Sorbie Tower

This fortified L-shaped tower is the ancient seat of clan Hannay.

Torhouse Stone Circle at sunset

Wigtown, Scotland

Torhouse Stone Circle

A circle made up of 19 boulders has stood in Scotland's Bladnoch Valley for some 4,000 years.

Kirkcudbright Tolbooth

Kirkcudbright, Scotland

Kirkcudbright Tolbooth

A 17th-century building that once served as the town's courthouse and jail is now a thriving art center.

Ruins of Buittle Castle.

Castle Douglas, Scotland

Buittle Castle

The former seat of power for the Balliol dynasty.

Bruce's Stone sits in a glorious location of the glen and loch.

Glentrool, Scotland

Bruce's Stone

On a hill overlooking Loch Trool, a granite boulder marks the site where Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, defeated an English army.

Big Water of Fleet viaduct

Dumfries, Scotland

Big Water of Fleet Viaduct

This 900-foot structure with 20 arches crossing a Scottish river was built in the late 19th century.

Kenmure Castle from down the hill

New Galloway, Scotland

Kenmure Castle

Believed to be the birthplace of John Balliol.

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