This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

The very rock that killed the stonemason marks his grave.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.