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

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

The last remaining bottle-shaped kilns in Scotland stand alone in an Edinburgh suburb.

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

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

This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

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

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

This city square dates back to the Scottish Enlightenment and was home to some of Scotland's brightest minds.

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

This strategically placed hill fort has served defensive forces from the Iron Age up until the 20th century.

England's only square-dimension hill horse was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's coronation.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world