A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.