Places Petronille Wants to Go

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

This severely painted building has a twisted connection to the witch hunts of the 1640s.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

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

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

This city square dates back to the Scottish Enlightenment and was home to some of Scotland's brightest minds.

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

This unassuming shed was the stage for a monumental event in British history.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

A quartet of brightly colored mythical beasts stand sentry at this gateway.

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

The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.

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

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

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

This 15th-century structure had a long, tortuous journey to its current location.

A British plaque explains that a house was built using the spoils of the first international golf bet.

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

This monument is dedicated to a young boy who survived a disaster that forced Edinburgh to reevaluate its building codes.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

The artwork mysteriously appeared within an Edinburgh cemetery.

A shiny sculpture celebrating the mighty mollusk.

These sculptures of various animals adorn the building that houses one of the capital's least known museums.