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

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

A tribute to a unique bike race that takes place every year.