A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Perhaps the most obscure, simplistic Banksy installation found in Bristol or in the entire world.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.