Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

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

A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.

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

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

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

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

A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

This riverfront statue honors the inventor of the first video games ever sold.

The 16th-century son of Sienese nobility carved this hermitage out of volcanic rock.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

Hidden in a high mountain cave, this hermitage dates back to the ninth century.

A holy stone inside this spectacular hermitage is said to have healing properties.

You can only access this hermitage by crawling under a ledge suspended above an overhang.

This iconic rock hermitage was once the abode of a future pope.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Continental Europe's only museum devoted to salt and pepper shakers features more than 20,000 designs.