A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This outsider art house has gone from clinical creation to astounding artwork.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

A house covered entirely with shells.

Holding the current title of "biggest chair in the world," it stands with little fanfare in Lucena, Spain.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

Stay in the one time home to one of Scotland's most notorious gentleman's sex clubs.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.