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Behind the Scenes at Alabama's Unclaimed Baggage Center

Permanently Closed

Palm Springs, California

Ruddy's General Store Museum

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

A close-up of the sculpture.

'Magokoro Tennyo' ('Goddess of Sincerity')

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

Berkeley, California

Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

Re-POP storefront

Re-POP Gifts

This pop-culture shop also offers the chance to become part of their favorite tv show or movie.

Peter Scott's Shoes.

Woodhall Spa, England

Peter Scott's Shoes

This tiny shoe shop claims to be the smallest store of its kind in Britain.

Videodrome entrance.

Atlanta, Georgia

Videodrome

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

Des Moines, Iowa

West End Architectural Salvage

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

Carnage statue in the store.

Denver, Colorado

Mile High Comics Megastore

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

The last Blockbuster.

Bend Blockbuster Video

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam Cheese Museum

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

Puscifer the Store

Jerome, Arizona

Puscifer the Store

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

The Chapel with the Woolworth signage visible.

Morelia, Mexico

The Former Chapel Hospital of Los Juaninos

This colonial-era hospital chapel is now a foyer and side entrance to a popular department store.

The view from 16th Street

Denver, Colorado

Daniels and Fisher Tower

A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

Everything is Terrible

East Los Angeles, California

Everything Is Terrible

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Queens, New York

Warung Selasa

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Inside the scent-based mini-museum.

Reykjavik, Iceland

Fischersund

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

Cranfield's Curiosity Cabinet.

Southend-on-Sea, England

Cranfield's Curiosity Cabinet

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.