From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

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

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A living art gallery painted on a canvas of Monterey pine trees.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

The loneliest island in New York.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.