One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

An unofficial monument to the late King of Pop sits at the base of a Renaissance composer's statue

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.