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

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

Scotland's first Masonic lodge may also be the oldest in the world.

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

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

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

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The artwork mysteriously appeared within an Edinburgh cemetery.

The remnants of a facade from a 19th-century market stall emporium.

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

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

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

A public art installation with a nautical themed poem, enhances this pedestrian street.

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