The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

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 haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

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

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.