A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.