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

This 19th-century sanctuary was built atop a hill that once housed a Roman fort.

A pair of mosaics marks the spot where the last accused witch of Dundee was put to death.

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

This ordinary-looking mailbox has a rather explosive history.

Possibly the world's smallest museum is home to one exhibit that sheds light on the capital city's dark criminal history.

The ruins of the second of three churches dedicated to the saint in a touristic Scottish town.

This sculpture commemorates Edinburgh's sister city and their respective celebrity dogs.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

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

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

A poignant memorial shows the widows and children left heartbroken by the worst fishing disaster in Scottish history.

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.

A weird and wonderful collection of items that pique curiosity and haunt nightmares.

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

The ruins of a 15th-century church once home to priests who prayed for a single family's salvation.

The ruins of a defunct limestone quarry still haunt this Scottish promontory.

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

The artwork mysteriously appeared within an Edinburgh cemetery.

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

A curious structure built just for the birds.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

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