George Heriot's School
Lauriston Place, Portsburgh, Edinburgh, EH3 9EQ, United Kingdom
From the back windows of the Elephant House cafe, J.
Greyfriars Kirk & Kirkyard
Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
A Skye Terrier named Bobby sat on his master's grave here for fourteen years, from 1858 until his own death in 1872, becoming the most famous dog in Scottish history.
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.
The Elephant House
21 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EN
This unassuming cafe on George IV Bridge calls itself the "Birthplace of Harry Potter," which is not strictly true — J.
The Writers' Museum
Lady Stair's Close, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2PA
Tucked down a narrow close off the Lawnmarket, a seventeenth-century townhouse holds one of literature's strangest collections: a plaster cast of Robert Burns's skull, Sir Walter Scott's rocking horse, and the ring a Samoan chief gave Robert Louis Stevenson.
Victoria Street
Victoria Street, Edinburgh EH1 2JW
Edinburgh's most photographed street curves downhill from the Royal Mile to the Grassmarket in a rainbow of painted facades that look like they were designed by someone who'd just read a particularly vivid fairy tale.
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