This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

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

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

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

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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

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

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.