Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

A massive, abstract lookout tower providing a panoramic view of Prague.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

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

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.