New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

Inside a grand Victorian-era carriage house is the oldest automobile collection in the United States.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

The last remaining example of a painted house from the medieval period in Nice.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.