A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

A former medieval fortress, now home to Edinburgh Napier University, contains a rather risqué work of art.

The remnants of a facade from a 19th-century market stall emporium.

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

One of the most spectacular 18th-century bridges in Scotland.

One of two Irish-style round towers in Scotland, this structure has mysterious origins.

A weird and wonderful collection of items that pique curiosity and haunt nightmares.

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

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

A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

Nestled atop a wind-swept crag in the Scottish Highlands is a lonely memorial to a beloved hiker.

This rare surviving broch is one of Scotland's most impressive Bronze Age structures.

An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

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.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

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

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.