This ordinary-looking rock may have played an important role in a 16th-century Scottish battle.

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

This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

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

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

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

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.