The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.