The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.