Holyrood Abbey
Canongate, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH8, United Kingdom
These roofless Gothic arches, open to the sky and the Edinburgh rain, are what remains of one of Scotland's most important medieval monasteries.
Rosslyn Chapel
Chapel Loan, Midlothian West, Roslin, EH25, United Kingdom
Dan Brown made this chapel world-famous in 'The Da Vinci Code,' but the real Rosslyn is stranger than any conspiracy theory.
Scott Monument
Princes Street, Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1, United Kingdom
The largest monument to a writer anywhere in the world stands in the middle of Edinburgh like a Gothic rocket ship.
St Giles' Cathedral
High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1RE
In 1637, a market trader named Jenny Geddes supposedly hurled a wooden stool at the minister's head when he tried to read from the new Anglican prayer book that Charles I was forcing on the Scottish Kirk.
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