Shops

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

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

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

One of the world's richest men bought this former paper factory and transformed it into a mall.

An amazing collection of curiosities hidden in a small Welsh village.