Part funhouse part learning center, Camera Obscura and the World of Illusions is five floors of perspective-bending fun. Operating for over 150 years, it is Edinburgh's oldest purpose built... »

Strange Science, Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Optical Oddities, Mazes | Edited by JocksAway, Dylan and others

An affliction practically nonexistent these days due to its simple solution, scurvy was once the scurge of sailors, pirates, and anyone else spending an extraordinary amount of time on the high... »

Unusual Monuments, Memento Mori | Edited by Rachel and Dylan

Since it was completed in the early 13th century, the Holyrood Abbey Church has acted as a fulcrum for major events in Scottish and English history. Tracing the history of the church tells the... »

Incredible Ruins | Edited by aerialdomo, atimian and others

Just a few years after the “Anatomy Murderers” Burke and Hare were apprehended in Edinburgh, two boys discovered these tiny dolls, each nested into a miniature coffin hidden away in the city park.... »

Microminiature art, Relics and Reliquaries | Edited by Annetta and tripandtravel1

There are few figures of the 19th century who have had a greater impact on the course of civilization than the Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell. His discovery of a unified... »

Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Unique Collections | Edited by Trevor and Dylan

The Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh houses three museums in the college's beautiful early 19th century William Playfair building: the Surgeons' Hall Pathology Museum, featuring pathological... »

Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Henry and 3 others

Life in 17th-century Mary King's close (neighborhood) in Edinburgh was less than sanitary. Inhabitants lived in narrow winding streets crammed into packed tenements up to seven stories high.... »

Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Delireus, mrobscurity and others