The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

This Art-Deco movie palace is the oldest independent cinema in Atlanta.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

Madrid's last horchata kiosk is a blue-and-white beacon of refreshment.

A miniature representation of Canadian cities and landmarks in incredible—and sometimes hilarious—detail.

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

A disused quarry turned lake in the middle of a residential district.

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

Terrapins of all colors and shapes are quick to bring fascination (and possibly long life) at this museum.

This densely-packed cluster of buildings was saved from the wrecking ball and turned into an art community.

If you've ever wanted to learn about the history of Asian fish balls, this Taiwanese museum has you covered.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.