This 15th-century structure had a long, tortuous journey to its current location.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

An ancient stone with mysterious origins stands in a residential neighborhood.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

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

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

The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.

Scotland's first Masonic lodge may also be the oldest in the world.

This unassuming shed was the stage for a monumental event in British history.

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

Every New Year's Day, locals don gaudy costumes and dive into the frigid Firth of Forth.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

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

Neon artworks light up this dark Edinburgh tunnel.

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

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.

This ordinary-looking mailbox has a rather explosive history.

These sculptures of various animals adorn the building that houses one of the capital's least known museums.

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.

One of Edinburgh's most popular works of street art is located well off the beaten path.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.