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

A showcase of canine neckwear spanning five centuries of doggie fashion and function.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

16,500-acre ranch filled with American heritage, geological wonders, and a giant pile of tires is the crown jewel of an intriguing tug-of-war.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.