A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.