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Twice a year, this Orkney town hosts a rowdy game of medieval mob football.

A former coastal watch post has been turned into a bothy with unrivaled views of the sea and its inhabitants.

A collection of short standing stones covers this hillside.

The biggest onshore wind farm in the United Kingdom.

This tiny getaway tucked away in an uninhabited Scottish valley isn't your ordinary teahouse.

A memorial commemorating the only Scottish police investigation into an extraterrestrial incident.

More than a century old, this cast iron bridge on the Balmoral Estate leads to nowhere.

A missing Roman legion was recreated in sculpture along a Scottish cycling route.

One of the most spectacular 18th-century bridges in Scotland.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

In 1396, two Scottish clans that had been violently feuding for centuries finally faced off in a bloody battle in this park.

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

A weird and wonderful collection of items that pique curiosity and haunt nightmares.

A grave marker depicting a body snatching tableau on a 19th-century tombstone.

A rare permanent monument to the Scottish Travellers.

A striking glass tribute to two sisters who suffered during Scotland's "Killing Time."

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

“It has nae lugs!”

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

Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

A former telephone box found new life as a photo booth and charity fundraiser.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

Originally intended as a temporary installation, this sculpture is now a permanent part of a stunning Scottish beach.