Seattle, Washington
Book Arts & Rare Book Collections
Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.
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Seattle, Washington
Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.
Seattle, Washington
This edible park is open to any and all foragers.
Seattle, Washington
A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.
Seattle, Washington
Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Brussels, Belgium
This section of the Art and History Museum's collections at the Cinquantenaire explores the symbolism of the heart in Western society.
Brussels, Belgium
This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.
Brussels, Belgium
Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.
Brussels, Belgium
Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.
San Francisco, California
A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.
San Francisco, California
The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
San Francisco, California
A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
San Francisco, California
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
London, England
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.
London, England
Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
London, England
This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
London, England
A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.