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This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

This monument pays tribute to the musicians responsible for creating the Sound Of Asbury Park.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

This statue of the "shiny uncle of Beppu" was erected in 2007.

The Conduit Road Schoolhouse is one of the last one-room schoolhouses remaining in Washington, D.C.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.