Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Sitting just off to the side of Scotland’s Black Barony, a hotel that was ...

Harry was given the framed map for his 85th birthday A grandad is enjoying fame on social media after completing a 30-year project to create a map of Scotland from rocks he collected. Harry Young, ...

If you take a look at a map of Scotland, you'll notice an eerily straight line running through the highlands, this is the ...

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As Scotland struggles with questions of independence, the British Geological Survey might be seen as making its own geopolitical gesture by republishing the most ambitious of the early geological ...

A 'midge map' reveals the areas in Scotland where you are most likely to be swarmed by the flying insects at any given time. As we approach the start of July and the peak of the summer season, midges ...

The strategy sets out 'ambitious plans for a clean energy system'. The Scottish government has published a Draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan, which it describes as a “route map to secure ...

The general election on 4 July will be the first contested under a new electoral map in Scotland and across the UK. Scotland will return two fewer MPs to the House of Commons as a result of the ...