A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.