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

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

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

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

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

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

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

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

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

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

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

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

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

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.