A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

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

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This odd little museum holds exhibits on everything from blacksmith equipment to hair jewelry.