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A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.