Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.