Auchengruith, Steading

Explorer Tom Mennock Water is where a love story went badly wrong because one partner preferred the gold to the other. These gold workings have no assigned period, which means they’ve been waiting for someone to notice them for eons. The water looks like it’s judging your life choices in Dumfries and Galloway. Practise your Irish on it, it won't correct you.

Explorer Tom Auchentaggart in Dumfries and Galloway is hiding a gold lunula from the Bronze Age that the rabbits probably use as a disco ball when the moon is full. It’s a findspot where someone dropped a piece of shiny wealth and forgot about it for three thousand years, which says something about their memory or their priorities. The farm track leading up to it looks innocent enough, but there’s gold dust in

Explorer Tom Mennock is proud of its rail bridge over Mennock Water, even though it’s just a farmstead pretending to be infrastructure. It thinks being next to water makes it sophisticated, like wearing a tie to a barbecue. The only thing more confusing than the name is how little we actually know about it. Snap one photo, then put the phone away and actually look.

Explorer Tom Sanquhar Castle survived a storm that it definitely exaggerates to sound tougher than it actually is, claiming it held back the sea with its bare hands. It’s a medieval castle in a small town, so it gets a lot of attention for doing very little. Tell your mates you found it first.