Places Totostales Wants to Go

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.