These were the largest wind chimes in the world when artist Tom Van Sant created them for a California mall in 1967.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This bronze statue commemorates the strange and beloved mascot of UC Irvine—the only university to be represented by a giant anteater.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

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

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

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.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

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

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

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