A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

This historic library honors the legacy of the British Empire's first children's librarian.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

A free museum of Toronto’s untold music history hidden inside a drugstore.

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

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world spans 14 lanes of traffic and six rail tracks, all while lighting up the night sky.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Immortalized in bronze, this frazzled student will be glued to his screen for centuries.

One of the world's largest collections of rare medical texts and ephemera.