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The Great Britain Guide

Weird & wonderful · Central Scotland

Scotland's eccentrics: pineapples, kelpies and lawnmower-shaped towns

The unexpected side of Scotland's heritage — folly architecture and modernist sculpture in equal measure.

Edinburgh and the Highlands get the postcards but Scotland's middle belt is where the country's strange streak hides — a pineapple-shaped 18th-century summerhouse, two 30-metre stainless-steel horse heads, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh's never-quite-built fantasy domestic dream finally realised.

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