Places alochh Wants to Go

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Once designed as a natural history museum, this building is now home to a massive art gallery.

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

Brass bricks outline the locations of Edinburgh's lost, lively market stalls.

This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

The Scottish Reformation leader's grave was paved over and is now a parking lot.

Nestled among the living residents is the final resting place of an apothecary plague victim.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.