Because there's no place like home.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

Dozens of snakes are housed and worshipped within the walls of this Vodun temple.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Take a cruise with no movement but plenty of style in this one-of-a-kind boat mall.

The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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