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A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.