Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.