A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

A full-scale sculpture of a mermaid and baby grand piano hidden underwater by David Copperfield.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Mexico's largest collection of masks is found in the ruins of an abandoned convent.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

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

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

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

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

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

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.