Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.