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The Collingwood production facility for a department store that was among the largest and earliest in Australia.

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

The oldest library in Pune.

This airy five-floor library and museum houses thousands of books and rotating exhibits on Japanese monsters and anime.

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

These massive animal sculptures were constructed as part of a reality TV show challenge.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

Some believe that the artist behind this whimsical statue inserted his own likeness as a way to discreetly flip the bird.

A statue based on a tragic Japanese nursery rhyme, commemorating San Diego's sisterhood with Yokohama.

This sculpture bears a tragic backstory that may have inspired a hauntingly beautiful children's song.

A former church transformed into a public library.

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

The oldest civic library in Italy can trace its foundation back to 1619.

The largest public library in the United Kingdom was designed to reflect the industrial and artistic history of the city where it stands.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."