France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

The history and future of cannabis.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

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

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.