The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.