Buenos Aires, Argentina
El Ateneo Grand Splendid
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Xul Solar Museum
Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Tomb of Rufina Cambacérès
A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…
Bern, Switzerland
The Child Eater of Bern
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Amiens, France
The Head of St. John the Baptist at Amiens Cathedral
The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.
Amiens, France
Jules Verne's Tomb
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
General Levalle, Argentina
Pedro Martín Ureta's Forest Guitar
Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.
Caleu Caleu Department, Argentina
Argentine Vintage Funeral Cadillacs
The clients of these mysterious hand-crafted funeral cars took their last ride in style.
Paris, France
Remnants of the Paris Guillotine
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Permanently Closed
Paris, France
Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière
The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.
Naples, Italy
The Anatomical Machines of Cappella Sansevero
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Naples, Italy
Gabinetto Segreto
The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Paris, France
Musée des Egouts (Paris Museum of Sewers)
The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Paris, France
Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Queens, New York
The Underground Home
A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.
Blois, France
Catherine de Medici's Chamber of Secrets
Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Bradbury Science Museum
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Blois, France
Mechanical Dragon Clock
A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.
Salzburg, Austria
Panorama Museum Salzburg
This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.
Permanently Closed
Monaco
Automatons and Dolls of Yesteryear
Thousands of costumed dolls fill one of the world's creepiest museums.
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.
Saint-Cannat, France
Le Village des Automates
An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Buffalo Ridge 1880 Cowboy Town
This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.
Utrecht, Netherlands
Museum Speelklok
This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.
