A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

The imposing piece of artwork is a celebration of Pan-American fraternity.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

Locals visit this abandoned train tunnel where a man took his own life to ask favors of his spirit.

This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Trash-filled shrines to an unofficial saint known for her endless breast milk dot the highways of Argentina.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

A magical work of architecture where a wind turbine enables monks to levitate.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.