Shops

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

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

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.