Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.