The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

An autonomous community living in the southern Negev desert.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.