An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

The world's oldest known salt mine.