Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

If you are looking for a used Russian battery, Chinese Ham Radio or other electronic oddities this Flea Market is a good place to start.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.

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

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

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

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.