Is apparently just a summer castle, but when I saw it, it looked pretty big to me. It's guarded by modern soldiers pacing about, and it's funny because it's such a big contrast to the guards and the castle behind it.
Everything there is ornate. They don't just have a clock for each room, they have unique grandfather clocks that have tiny figures (inlaid with gold and silver, of course) hitting bells, and doing various other activities every fifteen minutes.
They keep some super fancy clothes for the king: he even wore a crown-like nightcap to bed. There are authentic bloodstains on the coat he wore to battle, as well as diamond-butted pistols next to swords that look like they weigh as much as a small horse.
They keep three crowns blanketed with diamonds there. A really old one that a king running low on funds had to pawn and then the next king had to buy it back, and two more modern ones for a king and his prince. The princes crown looks only just big enough to fit Tobin, and I can just imagine a five year old prince fidgeting in his throne, while his mum and dad sit through a ceremony and wait to whisk the million dollar crown before it breaks.
There was a giant hall of amber and ivory artifacts, and the most amazing thing there was an ivory ship, completely complete as far as I could tell. It's even more impressive when you think that no modern tools were used.
The photos were taken by the Nikon for this trip, and they're too big to post, so here's a web address to those photos on imgur:
http://imgur.com/a/alfOZ
P. S.
Make sure you find the ones of the crowns with giant rubies and sapphires, and the ivory ship.
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