A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Venice's island of the dead.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.