Jim Haynes Rhino

Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AD

The bronze rhino sticking out from the Faculty of Informatics building marks the spot where Jim Haynes' Paperback Bookshop was situated in the 1960s.

Haynes is credited with founding the Traverse Theatre and was a leading figure in the alternative scene. Nowadays, he is best known for hosting open-house dinners for strangers every Sunday at his Paris home. If this is your sort of thing, check out Charlie& Evelyn's Supper Club.

Cockburn Street Owl & Pussygryphon

59 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BS

Many people have walked up the steep winding road, some may have paused for breath outside no 59, but not many will have looked up and noticed the carved figures at the top of the building.

The few people that are aware of them, are puzzled as to why a carving of an owl and a pussycat appear on an building older than Lear's famous poem. The simple answer is...it's not a cat, it's a gryphon. Mystery solved.