Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Get your cosplay on at Portland’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

Definitely not a clown bar.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.