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

Small sculpted heads of prominent phrenologists mark the outside of their former headquarters.

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

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

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.

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

A free public golf course hides in plain sight in the heart of Scotland’s capital.

A rare remnant of an exposition that took place nearby at the end of the 19th-century.

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.

A building-sized painting of the renowned 19th-century American abolitionist.

The lasting remains of a bygone era of open-air meat markets.

A plaque commemorates a Victorian scientist's monumental discovery about waves.

This statue stands as a message against the ills of Apartheid.

Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall houses an incredible collection of ornate, centuries-old keyboards.

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

A bronze statue of a low three-legged seat commemorates a piece of furniture that started a riot.

The 20th-century chapel’s intricate woodwork includes amazing details, most notably angels playing bagpipes.

Dedicated to the Father of the British Fire Service.

Once called "the biggest room in the world," this Victorian-era hall is so large that it contains a smaller 1970s heptagonal theatre.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This building's name and a plaque are all that's left of what was probably the most important nightclub of the Madchester music scene.

When the city of Manchester built a new centralized heating network, they did it with style.

This very ornate Victorian gateway seems completely out of place in the modern industrial city of Warrington.