This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.