A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

Perfume museum and library.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.