The city's best-known joke shop is flagged by an oversized Groucho moustache and glasses above the front door. You'll also find stage make-up, magic tricks...

Although they're best known as optometrists, Blacks & Lizars also specialises in photographic equipment: digital, compact and SLR cameras, plus camcorders,...

This handy addition at the back of Scotland's premier outdoors activity store, Tiso, offers breakfast rolls, some serious panini, quiches, soups and salads,...

Recovered pieces from the Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian eras can be found here, alongside art nouveau and art deco objects.

British-made crafts are a speciality here, as are fairly traded and recycled goods; if you're looking for a souvenir of Scotland that's actually been made...

One of the city's best Highland outfitters stocks kilts (including children's kilts), ladies' kilted skirts and all the relevant accessories.

Spread over 50,000sq ft of floor space in a converted whisky bond, this is the largest collection of quality antiques and collectibles in town.

In addition to contemporary minimalist furniture, you'll find a large range of modern accessories, including plenty of Alessi designs.

Fossils of all sizes and to suit all budgets are sold here, as well as a good range of minerals, both polished and unpolished, and jewellery incorporating...

Just off Broughton Street, this queer shop is pleasingly clean and airy. Head here to buy mucky DVDs and magazines, as well as skimpy underwear and a full...

Stocks an array of Matryoshka dolls, Russian dolls, ceramics, laquerwork, wooden crafts and icons.