Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

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

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

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

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

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

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

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

Neon artworks light up this dark Edinburgh tunnel.

Possibly the world's smallest museum is home to one exhibit that sheds light on the capital city's dark criminal history.

An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

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

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

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

Enter this small nook and you'll be surrounded by 360 degrees of street art.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

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

Long abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

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