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

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, designed to resemble a synagogue.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

After over 100 years out of service this landmark windmill once again turns as a symbol of Jerusalem's self-sufficiency.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.