A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.