A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

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

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.