The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

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

Once designed as a natural history museum, this building is now home to a massive art gallery.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

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

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

These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.

The artwork mysteriously appeared within an Edinburgh cemetery.

A recreation of pop art pioneer Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi's London studio.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

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

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

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

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

An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

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

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.

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

This stack of stones honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

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

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

A series of three shiny letters mark the boundary of an old refuge for those being pursued by debt collectors.