This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Legends say that this small island was the final resting place of the Welsh saint of lovers.

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

A thriving artist's wonderland located just 6 kilometers from Korea's DMZ.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.