"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

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

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.