Places Amelie Haupt Wants to Go

This ancient holy well is older than much of the city that surrounds it.

One of the city's oldest pubs displays a skull said to belong to the country's last witch burned at the stake.

These semi-natural waterfalls hint at the park's Victorian-era industrial past.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

The abandoned transportation hub hides within the Glasgow attraction it once served.

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

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A former telephone box found new life as a photo booth and charity fundraiser.

Possibly the world's smallest museum is home to one exhibit that sheds light on the capital city's dark criminal history.

This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

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

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

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

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.