Silver Lake's oddball emporium Coco's Variety Store is a not so general neighborhood market that's actually a bike shop. Buy, sell, and repair your new and used wheels and maybe pick up an early ...

The lights are always on at Iwakō, a maker of novelty erasers in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture. On the firm’s production floor 15 machines whir day and night cranking out miniature renderings of zoo ...

The Pepto Bismol pink eraser is an icon, and for good reason. Early erasers were made in part of pumice, a ruddy, Italian volcanic ash that helped the eraser wipe away pigment. So an eraser’s pink ...

The collecting bug can bite in the most unexpected of ways. Pan Mok Wing-sze was a master at “beat the eraser” when she was in primary school in Hong Kong in the 1970s. The addictive game involves ...