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

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

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

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

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

This statue stands as a message against the ills of Apartheid.

A rare remnant of an exposition that took place nearby at the end of the 19th-century.

A building-sized painting of the renowned 19th-century American abolitionist.

A free public golf course hides in plain sight in the heart of Scotland’s capital.

Nestled among the living residents is the final resting place of an apothecary plague victim.

A former medieval fortress, now home to Edinburgh Napier University, contains a rather risqué work of art.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

An ancient stone with mysterious origins stands in a residential neighborhood.

These trenches were used to train the Scottish military for life on the frontlines of World War I.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A miniature of a lighthouse acts as a beacon for what transpires inside this location.