This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

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.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A small town Romanian cemetery filled with darkly humorous gravestones.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.