Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

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

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.