/lit/ - Literature

What are some "cabinet of curiosities" books? You know, short stories (or novels organized in somewhat independent segments), usually focusing on one curious concept at a time, lots of references to weird historical things, objects that don't really exist but should and ones that shouldn't exist but do, and so on.
Almost everything by Borges and Calvino fit very well in this "category". They also use lists (Calvino sometimes without any separation between their elements), which is also a very "cabinet" thing.