Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

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

Another entry into the world of Edinburgh's pop-up artworks.

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

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

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

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

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

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

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

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

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

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.