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Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.