Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Inscribed on the gate are the names of 29 figures from the University's first five centuries.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Inside this art museum resides one of Glasgow's most famous musical instruments.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Once the overnight home of Mary Queen of Scots.

A rare memorial paying homage to an altruistic woman from the 19th-century.

The man who helped establish the first rules of golf.

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

The remnants of a facade from a 19th-century market stall emporium.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

One of the most spectacular 18th-century bridges in Scotland.

The artwork mysteriously appeared within an Edinburgh cemetery.

Scotland's first Masonic lodge may also be the oldest in the world.

Brass bricks outline the locations of Edinburgh's lost, lively market stalls.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.