This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The magic's in the hole!

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

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

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.