The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.