This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

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

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

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.