Pilgrim's Rest (Afrikaans: Pelgrimsrus) is a small museum town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa which is protected as a provincial heritage site.

It was the second of the Transvaal gold fields, attracting a rush of prospectors in 1873, soon after the MacMac diggings started some 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) away.

Towards the end of the 19th century claims were bought up and underground mining started by the company known as TGME.

The most detailed account attributes the grave to a fortune hunter, one Walter Scott, who committed suicide.

[4] Scott would have shot his friend Roy Spencer, son of a well-to-do English banker, after they returned drunk from a party.

On May 15, 2004, the old TGME reduction works was added to the UNESCO World Heritage tentative List in the Cultural category but was removed in 2016.