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A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.

Life-size animals and furniture made entirely from cardboard fill this odd paper-themed restaurant.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.