Aultmore House, a stately home in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, became known as Bob Dylan's Highland retreat after the musician and his brother, David Zimmerman, bought the property in 2006. Its appeal lay partly in a colourful history that mirrored the kind of storytelling found in Dylan's own songwriting, and the purchase capped a long-standing fascination with Scotland that dated back to his early career.

The mansion was built in the early 1900s by Archibald Merrilees, a businessman behind Russia's first department store, who was later forced to sell after the Russian Revolution hit his finances. During the Second World War it served as a convalescent hospital and, notably, a finishing school run by a former prisoner of war from New Zealand who had escaped from Colditz. Dylan's connection to Scotland included referencing a traditional Scottish song in "Pretty Peggy-O" and dedicating "Highlands", from his 1997 album Time Out of Mind, to the region's landscape. He sold Aultmore House to whisky distillers in 2023, describing it as "surplus to requirements".