The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

The oldest European burial ground in Australia.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

The final resting place of a poisoned lover whose death was at the center of one of Glasgow's most sensational murder trials.

Tucked away behind the mansions of Mayfair, this picturesque garden is a hidden London treasure with a spooky past.

A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.

Discover the mummified remains of Ancient Egypt in the middle of metropolitan Tokyo.

Revitalization efforts converted a former U.S. military heliport into a sprawling urban park.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

At the "fishing boat shrine," an offering is said to help ward off fevers.

These narrow stone granaries have been used to store and dry out grain for hundreds of years.

The history of this Moorish castle includes royals, a Mexican-Spanish association, and several attempts at lodging.