Shops

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

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

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Half curiosity cabinet, half late night hotspot, this Brazilian bar is helping turn a dangerous neighborhood around.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.