Cambridge, Massachusetts
Blaschka Glass Flowers
Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Naples, Italy
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Santa Rosa, California
Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.
Alameda, California
One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.
Albany, California
A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.
Oakland, California
Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Seaham, England
A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Tsuruoka, Japan
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Middlebury, Vermont
The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.
La Paz, Bolivia
Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Bar-le-Duc, France
Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.
Leshan, China
This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.