A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

A diorama lover's dream world.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.