A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

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

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

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

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

Enter this small nook and you'll be surrounded by 360 degrees of street art.

The man who helped establish the first rules of golf.

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

Once home to a Scottish baronet, this 18th-century historic house doubles as a legendary art space.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Small sculpted heads of prominent phrenologists mark the outside of their former headquarters.

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

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

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

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

The first Chinese student to graduate from a European university.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

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

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

This stack of stones honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.

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

An iconic red telephone box turned tiny art gallery.