Where Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" were born.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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