A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.