Bucharest, Romania
Romanian Kitsch Museum
A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.
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Bucharest, Romania
A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Queens, New York
The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.
Vancouver, Washington
A library of only unpublished manuscripts.
Hillsboro, Oregon
A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.
Portland, Oregon
Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.
Polson, Montana
With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."
Barcelona, Spain
The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.
Seattle, Washington
The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Cave City, Kentucky
Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.
La Paz, Bolivia
Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Leuk, Switzerland
For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.
Craighat, Scotland
A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.
Drymen, Scotland
This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.