Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.