A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

New York's oldest magic store.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.