This Dutch art piece became a Russian icon.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

Strange secondhand shop showcasing taxidermy and oddies

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

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

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.