Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Forgotten jail cells beneath this Scottish town hall are now used for delightfully artful storage.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.