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A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Since 1942, this third-generation Cantonese barbecue join has been turning out gorgeously lacquered roasted meats.

At this Oaxaca contest, artists turn purple produce into stunning depictions of saints, buildings, and La Pietà.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.