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

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall houses an incredible collection of ornate, centuries-old keyboards.

Once designed as a natural history museum, this building is now home to a massive art gallery.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

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

A stone-filled garden in the heart of Edinburgh commemorates the father of modern geology.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

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

A free public golf course hides in plain sight in the heart of Scotland’s capital.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

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

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

A public art piece that barely gets recognized, but then that might be the point.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

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

A rare remnant of an exposition that took place nearby at the end of the 19th-century.

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 building-sized painting of the renowned 19th-century American abolitionist.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.