One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.