This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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