Places Otherwyrld Wants to Go

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

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

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

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

Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.

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

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

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

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

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

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

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

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

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

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

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

The Scottish Reformation leader's grave was paved over and is now a parking lot.