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

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A mother’s sweet tradition lives on with this unique memorial.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.

At 22 feet tall, these Bronze Age monoliths are some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom.

This Neolithic stone circle is the most complete of its kind in Scotland.

No other place in Scotland has such a high concentration of prehistoric carved stone surfaces.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

This astronomically-aligned stone circle was the first of its kind to be built in Great Britain after a 3,000-year hiatus.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

An allegorical statue of a giant pregnant woman representing justice and truth.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.