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An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

An oddity shop filled with loads of bones, skulls, crafting materials, vintage taxidermy, and more.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

This bee-themed family business does more with honey than anyone would think was possible.

For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.

A roadside statue store in rural Minnesota with quirky displays.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's northernmost botanic garden has 25 collections of plants from arctic and alpine regions.

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

This garden boasts a magnificent collection of orchids and a spectacular view of the surrounding valley.

Home to a garden of poisonous plants and the only legal cannabis and opium farms in Tokyo.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

It may no longer take overnight guests, but the Martin still makes out-of-towners feel at home—just like it has for the past century.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

A restored World War II Churchill Mark VII Tank now stands guard in Carrickfergus.

The site of a dress rehearsal for D-Day that ended in disaster.

This sculpture memorializes the town's connection to the famous horror author Edgar Allan Poe.

A unique collection of figures perform down the facade of the Gene Frankel Theatre.

A quartet of brightly colored mythical beasts stand sentry at this gateway.

This bare, bronze lad in a lone sock sits in the middle of Loughborough’s town center.