Doganella di Ninfa, Italy
Gardens of Ninfa
Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.
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Doganella di Ninfa, Italy
Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.
Naples, Italy
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Rome, Italy
One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.
Rome, Italy
A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.
Riola, Italy
Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Rome, Italy
An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
London, England
One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
Paris, France
A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Portland, Oregon
Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.
Portland, Oregon
Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.
Portland, Oregon
Definitely not a clown bar.
Portland, Oregon
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
Denver, Colorado
A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Leuk, Switzerland
For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Neustadt an der Donau, Germany
The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.