If you like your history packed with facts, this might not be for you. However, if raw flesh, disease, murder, exaggerated pantomime mayhem and the pornography of violence are...

Designed by Robert Adam and planned while North Bridge was still being built, General Register House first opened in 1789, despite being only half complete. Under architect...

Scotland's purpose-built General Register Office, completed in 1863, contains records of all births, marriages and deaths in the country since 1855, census records up to 1901,...

The house is run by the National Trust for Scotland and provides a window into how the upper classes lived during the 18th century. The rooms are packed with period furnishings...

Edinburgh has a wealth of institutions serving the visual arts, but perhaps none is quite as grand as the National Gallery of Scotland. The gallery boasts excellent collections...

The National Trust for Scotland has spent some £13.6 million restoring these four townhouses to their original state, and making them suitable for modern offices. The public...

Along with Duddingston Kirk and Kirkliston's parish church, St Cuthbert's has claim to being one of the oldest places of worship in the city. However, although its steeple...

William Playfair's vast building is effectively a large-scale temporary exhibition space, supplementing big-ticket blockbusters of the likes of Monet and Titian with shows...

The monument houses a vast white marble statue of the city's beloved author Sir Walter Scott (by Edinburgh sculptor John Steell) as well as 64 statuettes, mostly of Scott's...

Sir Richard Rowand Anderson's impressive building originally housed the National Museum of Antiquities, but it now contains various busts and portraits of Scottish heroes,...

Designed in the perpendicular Gothic style by the Scottish architect William Burn, the man behind the Melville Monument in St Andrew's Square and the 19th-century additions to...