A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

An islet filled with wooden houses where the open sea meets a lagoon.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.