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

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

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

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

Designed to illustrate two parts of the human psyche.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

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

In memory of the assassinated, now-canonized Salvadoran archbishop who is the namesake of nearby Romero Place.

The first Chinese student to graduate from a European university.

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

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

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

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

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

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

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

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

A sculpture in a secluded garden honors one of Edinburgh's most innovative thinkers and city planners.

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

Dedicated to the Father of the British Fire Service.