An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.