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

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

A multi-storied painting that depicts the area's rich and diverse maritime history.

The arching stretch of London's longest street holds many reminders of the area's maritime past.

Near the site where the English Archbishop was born, you can find an emblem in the shape of a pilgrim's badge.

A rare and unique example of an 18th-century door latch calls this restaurant home.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.

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

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

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

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

Designed to illustrate two parts of the human psyche.

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

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

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

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

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

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

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

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

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

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.