A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.