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

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

A shrine honoring a legendary ghost bride lies within this vibrant temple.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

The skeletons, demons, and corpses serve as a warning of the terrors of Buddhist Hell.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.