If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

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

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

Always a new use for this old building.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.