The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

A rare and unique example of an 18th-century door latch calls this restaurant home.

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

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

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

Small sculpted heads of prominent phrenologists mark the outside of their former headquarters.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

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

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

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.

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

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

These wooden pipes were crucial to providing water to Medieval Edinburgh.

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

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

A thousand year old oak tree survives in Liverpool.