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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