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

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

Inside this cathedral is a shoulder bone belonging to the Patron Saint of Scotland.

A shiny sculpture celebrating the mighty mollusk.

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

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.

The last remaining bottle-shaped kilns in Scotland stand alone in an Edinburgh suburb.

These sculptures of various animals adorn the building that houses one of the capital's least known museums.

Brass bricks outline the locations of Edinburgh's lost, lively market stalls.

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

This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

Edinburgh’s version of the Sistine Chapel is this former church, with an interior covered in paintings done by one woman over the course of nearly a decade.

Another entry into the world of Edinburgh's pop-up artworks.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

This stack of stones honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

Once home to a Scottish baronet, this 18th-century historic house doubles as a legendary art space.

An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

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

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

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

Enter this small nook and you'll be surrounded by 360 degrees of street art.

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