The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.