The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in rural Ohio.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.