This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

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

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.