A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

32,000 tiny soldiers are posed in 23 historical settings.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Museum of amazing old toys and automata.

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

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.