Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

The world's largest reclining Buddha, the Giant Buddha of Mudon.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.