A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

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.

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.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

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

The history and future of cannabis.

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

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.