Places kasteel1 Wants to Go

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This industrial museum is based on one of the oldest standing iron forges in the U.K.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

A weird and wonderful collection of items that pique curiosity and haunt nightmares.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.