One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Thousands of costumed dolls fill one of the world's creepiest museums.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.