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

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

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

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

An artistic interpretation of the history of a Scottish park, combining poetry with anthropomorphic animals.

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

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

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

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

A rare and unique example of an 18th-century door latch calls this restaurant home.

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

These plaques located in a court preserve a small piece of Edinburgh's history.

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

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

Dedicated to the Father of the British Fire Service.

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

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

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

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

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

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

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.