A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.