Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

The world's first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

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

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A somewhat mysterious biomedical museum housed inside a Spanish university.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This Swedish astronomical clock was in storage for almost a century before its glorious workings were put on display once more.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.