Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.