Places Jaszmina Szendrey Wants to Go

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

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

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

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

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

Neon artworks light up this dark Edinburgh tunnel.

This stately bank building hides a spectacular star-studded ceiling.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

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

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

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

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

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

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

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

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

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

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

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

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

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