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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

Hidden inside a hotel is a museum of miniature models depicting the traditions and history of Mexico.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

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

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

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

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.