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The Edinburgh Dungeon
Address: 31 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DF
The Edinburgh Dungeon is a top visitor attraction, which has been open since 2000. It’s located beneath the city streets, with its entrance on Market Street near Waverley Station. The dungeon tour offers an insight into Scotland’s dark history through immersive live shows and scary rides. The walk-through interactive experience brings Scotland’s history and legends to life through theatrical performance, storytelling and rides. In 2016, the attraction underwent a major expansion, adding new show areas and cutting-edge special effects.
The 80-minute underground tour is based on Scotland’s real history and legends. You’ll come face-to-face with murderers, cannibals, torturers, ghosts, judges, witch prickers, foul clengers and many other horrible characters from over one thousand years of Scotland’s past. There’s a boat ride through the gloomy caves of Galloway and a gravity-defying drop ride through the Grassmarket gallows! This is a unique, exciting and immersive experience, suitable for ages 8 and over.
5 things to do at The Edinburgh Dungeon
- Be tried for your sins in the Judge’s court room. Are you guilty or very guilty?
- Travel by boat into the Cave of Cannibals … just in time for dinner!
- Step into Dr Knox’s theatre as 19th Century medical students prepare for the autopsy of one of Burke and Hare’s victims.
- Meet Half-hangit Maggie, survivor of her own public hanging.
- Experience an exhilarating vertical free fall drop ride. See the judge, priest and executioner, as you take your turn to face the drop!
