Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.