An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

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

The history and future of cannabis.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.