Places kostia Wants to Go

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Become a prohibition rebel.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

One of the largest collections of merchandise from the famous British sci-fi show can be found smack in the middle of Indiana.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

This massive vault of comedic history is no joke.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.