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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.