This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This traditional home is a rare example of 19th-century Korean architecture.

A hidden gem in the middle of the city's infamous Jewelry Quarter.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

These springs were once the source of a tourism boom to Sulphur Springs.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

East London art gallery showcasing contemporary art from Europe's Eastern Bloc.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.