Europe's largest collection of matchbox designs is a fascinating exploration of the cultural history of the world.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver's oldest watering holes.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

The silent film master's legacy commemorated in all the right and wrong places.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

This site is both a remarkable reminder of the town's mining history and a fantastic government blooper.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.