A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

Rumored to be the famed pirate's lookout tower, this historic stone structure is now just watching for tourists.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.