While everyone erects monuments, the Scots are unique in their adulation for writers.

The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to
Scottish author Sir Walter Scott (not to be confused with the National Monument).
It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite the Jenners
department store on Princes Street and near to Waverley Station.
The tower is 200.5 feet or 61.1 metres tall, and has a series of
viewing decks reached by a series of narrow spiral staircases giving
panoramic views of central Edinburgh and its surroundings.
The highest viewing deck is reached by a total of 287 steps.
It is built from Binnie shale quarried in nearby Livingston;
the oil which continues to leech from its matrix has helped to glue
the notoriously filthy atmosphere of Victorian Edinburgh
(then nicknamed "Auld Reekie" — old smokey) to the tower, leaving it
an unintended sooty-black colour. It is often noted for looking like a "gothic rocket ship"

from: Wikipedia