London, England
Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
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Niš, Serbia
The Skull Tower of Nis
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
London, England
Natural History Museum of London
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Grave of Elmer McCurdy
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
Hallstatt, Austria
Hallstatt Charnel House
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Reykjavik, Iceland
Icelandic Phallological Museum
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
Hólmavík, Iceland
The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Oddington, England
Memento-Mori Hamsterley Brass
Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.
Sainte-Flavie, Québec
‘Le Grand Rassemblement’ (The Grand Gathering)
An ever-changing gathering of crude wooden figures haunts the St. Lawrence River.
Monduli, Tanzania
Lake Natron
A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.
Charlottesville, Virginia
The Raven Room
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.
Budapest, Hungary
Terror Háza
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
Săpânța, Romania
The Merry Cemetery
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Juodkrantė, Lithuania
Hill of Witches
Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.
