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This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

An ancient stone with mysterious origins stands in a residential neighborhood.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

An artistic interpretation of the history of a Scottish park, combining poetry with anthropomorphic animals.

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

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

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Though difficult to access, this stunning cave has a place in Scotland's poetic history.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

Unusually, this ancient Iron Age broch has never been excavated.

The sign announces the Scottish village's cosmic connections, as it's twinned with Glenelg, Mars.

The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.

A public art piece that barely gets recognized, but then that might be the point.

This city square dates back to the Scottish Enlightenment and was home to some of Scotland's brightest minds.

The lasting remains of a bygone era of open-air meat markets.

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

Inside this home, the Icelandic national anthem was born.

If you fly into Edinburgh Airport, it's possible to spot this prehistoric site without even getting off the plane.

The man who helped establish the first rules of golf.