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

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.

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

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.