Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

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

A rare memorial paying homage to an altruistic woman from the 19th-century.

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

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

A quartet of brightly colored mythical beasts stand sentry at this gateway.

One of only three examples of a stained glass window manufactured by the Tiffany Company in Scotland.

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

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

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

This bronze cat looks out over the Linlithgow Canal.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

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

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

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.

The ruins of a defunct limestone quarry still haunt this Scottish promontory.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past