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A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The last of its kind in the country.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.