Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

The ancient ruins of an extinguished city amidst the bustle of a modern one.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.