The Highlands of Scotland felt familiar. It wasn't my imagination. The Highlands were once part of the same mountain range that makes up Appalachia, hundreds of millions of years ago. The serpentine ...

Cairngorms National Park is its own world. You could easily spend days exploring the many mountains, lochs, rivers, forests and villages that comprise the United Kingdom's largest national park.

Let's visit Scotland’s Glencoe, Inverness, the Culloden battlefield and Loch Ness. We'll visit Glencoe, Inverness, the Culloden battlefield — and keep our eyes peeled at Loch Ness — as we work up an ...