One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.

Australia's largest medical museum featuring a 19th-century pharmacy.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

An ancient rock engraving shows Aboriginals used their advanced knowledge of the stars to hunt and gather.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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