An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A science teacher's dream.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

True to his word, George Swanson is buried in his white 1984 Corvette.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The world's only known button museum.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.