Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

London's largest outsider art museum.

London's old-school healing garden.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.