Lido, Italy
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Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.
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Lido, Italy
Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.
Stockholm, Sweden
Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.
Iowa City, Iowa
A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.
Barre, Vermont
This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.
Middlebury, Vermont
The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.
Oravský Podzámok, Slovakia
The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
West Palm Beach, Florida
This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Bar-le-Duc, France
Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.
Dublin, Ireland
The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.
London, England
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
London, England
The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Hunedoara, Romania
This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.
Griswold, Connecticut
The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.