Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

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

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.