Canongate Kirk
153 Canongate, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH8 8BN, United Kingdom
Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, is buried in a modest grave in this kirkyard, and for most of the twentieth century almost nobody noticed.
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.
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.
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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