This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.