The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

One of four sister bronze sculptures dedicated to the widows and orphans of an 1881 tragedy.

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.

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

This ordinary-looking mailbox has a rather explosive history.

These sculptures of various animals adorn the building that houses one of the capital's least known museums.

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

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

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

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

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

This enormous, elaborate tomb looks oddly out of place next to a suburban Edinburgh bowling club.

It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.

A controversial cenotaph dedicated to a local physician with an unscrupulous past.

An iconic red telephone box turned tiny art gallery.

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

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

Inside this home, the Icelandic national anthem was born.

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

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

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.