Vancouver, British Columbia
The Sam Kee (Jack Chow) Building
At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.
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Vancouver, British Columbia
At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.
Bologna, Italy
An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Castelnovo ne' Monti, Italy
An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Paris, France
The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.
Paris, France
Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.
Lucca, Italy
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.
New York, New York
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
Helsinki, Finland
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Casorzo, Italy
A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.
Modena, Italy
David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."
Rome, Italy
An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Montegabbione (TR), Italy
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Siena, Italy
Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.