Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

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.

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.