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The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

The canine-themed book collection claims to be Europe's largest dog library.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

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

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

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

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

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.