Curling takes the world by storm every four years, but many fans don't know much about the stones used.

Every single curling stone in the Winter Olympics is crafted from a special granite found only on Ailsa Craig, a small uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland.

Every curling stone that slides across the ice at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo traces its origin back to this windswept island off the west coast of Scotland, a place so protected that ...