These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

An outdoor installation of 20 vintage signs that once hung in front of businesses throughout town.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.