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12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.