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

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

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

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.