Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

A recreation of pop art pioneer Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi's London studio.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

New York's oldest magic store.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The remains of the second-oldest zoo in Europe can be seen within these library gardens.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.