A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.