This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

Artist and musician Will Menter creates musical sculptures.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.