A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

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

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

Largest sub-glacial lake ever discovered.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.