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Top 10 Best of the Rest

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  • 1. Open-Top Bus Tours

    Cruise the city with guided commentary and a pigeon’s eye view.

  • 2. Scottish National Portrait Gallery

    Look Robert Burns, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Queen Mother in the eye. Portraits through the ages, housed in a Gothic shrine.

  • 3. Edinburgh Dungeon

    Just when you thought you liked Edinburgh! The worst of the city’s past: murder, torture, punishment, disease and grave robbing.

  • 4. Greyfriars Kirk

    Historic church, best known for its statue (in the street) of “Greyfriars Bobby” (1858–72), a devoted terrier who lived by his master’s grave.

  • 5. Dean Gallery

    Opened in 1999, opposite the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the gallery houses an art library and collection of works by Paolozzi. It also hosts temporary exhibitions.

  • 6. Hopetoun House

    This fine architectural gem, work of the industrious Robert Adam, is both a stately home and an art treasury (paintings by Canaletto, Rubens, Rembrandt, to name but a few).

  • 7. Caledonian Brewery

    Intriguing tour of Edinburgh’s famous brewery. Great copper vats and (smaller) samples.

  • 8. Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World

    A walk-through tropical forest with a myriad of free-flying butterflies and friendly crawlies.

  • 9. Scottish Mining Museum

    Don your headlamp and join ex-miners on an enlightening underground tour.

  • 10. Crystal Visitor Centre

    Amid blazing furnaces, watch molten glass turn into crystal – good place to pick up a bargain.

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