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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This museum in the famously blue neighborhood of Sidi Bou Saïd showcases a traditional Tunisian lifestyle.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

One of the largest and oldest caravansaries in Persia.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

The village's cobblestone streets are lined with shops displaying exquisite copper craftsmanship.

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.