One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This museum explores the history of stickers and is home to RePEELed, an exhibit featuring sticker art from around the world.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

This Copper beech tree nestled on a nature reserve is host to a bevy of autographs from Irish literary icons.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.