This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

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