Merklan Hill

Explorer Tom Merkland Hill would tell its younger self to stop worrying about the wind and start enjoying the view from the top. The farm building there looks like it’s waiting for someone to finally ask it what happened last Tuesday. Perfect place to be dramatically windswept and feel important about it.

Explorer Tom Nether Dullarg is playing hard to get, sitting there without a single date attached. Legend says a goat once ruled this spot with an iron hoof and zero mercy, making it the most democratic place I've ever seen. It’s perfectly positioned for you to feel dramatically windswept while wondering if that was a real goat or just my imagination.

Explorer Tom Thornygreue started because two lads in a pub bet that they could build a boundary out of pure spite and thorns. They lost the bet, but the boundary stayed, probably because nobody wanted to admit defeat. It’s a field boundary with no date, which means it’s been sitting there judging you for centuries. Bring your worst joke, the place has heard worse.

Explorer Tom Upper Dullarg in Dumfries and Galloway has a curse that only hits you if you don't wave properly. It's got no period assigned, so it's basically playing hide-and-seek with history itself. You never know when it'll blink first or make you feel guilty about your greeting etiquette. Bring a friend who talks too much and let the place shut them up.

Explorer Tom Shirmers Castle in Dumfries and Galloway is hiding behind some very unimpressive-looking bushes, acting like it hasn’t been there for five hundred years or something. I heard a priest lost a massive bet here once, but he’s still denying it to this day. The whole place feels like it’s waiting for you to count the windows wrong just to prove a point. Go on, count the windows and get it wrong like I

Explorer Tom Kenmure Castle in Dumfries and Galloway is having a bit of an identity crisis, mixing medieval vibes with a seventeenth-century sundial that definitely doesn’t match its outfit. A local guy swears he invented the whole thing himself, but I think he just saw it from his window one Tuesday morning. It’s got a possible moat, which sounds like a great place to lose your phone permanently. Stand back, 眯