Tokyo, Japan
Vampire Café
A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
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Tokyo, Japan
A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Chicago, Illinois
This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
New York, New York
New York's oldest magic store.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.
New York, New York
The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
New York, New York
A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
New York, New York
Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
New York, New York
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.