One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.

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.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.