Places SnotraEldur Wants to Go

This enormous, elaborate tomb looks oddly out of place next to a suburban Edinburgh bowling club.

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

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

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

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

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

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

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

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

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

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

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

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

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

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

A remnant of the Roman army's presence on the coast of Scotland.

A memorial commemorating the only Scottish police investigation into an extraterrestrial incident.