Shops

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This 38-year old fish became a casualty of changing trends.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.

One of the world's largest malls has been almost completely empty since its opening.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.