The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

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

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 might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

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

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

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

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

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

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

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Definitely not a clown bar.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.