What Came Before
History
TODO — what history in Edinburgh are actually worth the time.
3 placesOld Town
Greyfriars Kirkyard
Where the Covenant was signed, where the body snatchers worked, and where a small dog became the city's most profitable legend.
Royal Mile
The Real Mary King's Close
A seventeenth-century street sealed under the City Chambers, where people went on living after the building was put on top of them.
Waterloo Place
Old Calton Burial Ground
David Hume's mausoleum, a monument to five reformers transported to Australia, and Abraham Lincoln, all in one small graveyard.