This tiny cottage surrounded by railroads is the oldest surviving structure in Fairmount Park.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

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

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Haven for steampunks.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.