Opened, appropriately, on Friday the 13^th Edinburgh Dungeon is one of Edinburgh's newest tourist attractions.

Situated near Waverley railway station this exhibition depends on Edinburgh's more gruesome side.

See and read about Burke and Hare, the 19^th Century grave robbers. They plundered local graves for body parts to aid medical research, well paid work. The local constabulary soon realised that grave robbers were at work and maintained a watch on local graveyards. Seeing as robbing graves was becoming too risky they turned to creating their own corpses and selling these on. It also proved more profitable, though not for the victims, as they could provide exactly what the medics wanted, no need to search the cemeteries for a woman, a child, a middle-aged man, they just wandered the city at night and selected their next victim.

Rather perversely there is an exhibition depicting the role that Edinburgh has played in furthering medical research by work done on corpses, a gruesome but necessary task. No mention is made of Burke and Hare's role; the glory goes to the research doctors on this occasion.

See other exhibits depicting Edinburgh's plague ridden past, the engineering skills needed to produce instruments of torture, how Edinburgh was at the forefront of execution technology - all is revealed in the Edinburgh Dungeon.