Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

New York's oldest magic store.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.