A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

A living museum working to keep the traditions of building and repairing handmade wooden boats, ropemaking, and blacksmithing alive.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

This historic library honors the legacy of the British Empire's first children's librarian.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.

An ancient Roman snake god, carved expertly into stone.

This one-of-its-kind shipyard brings the 12th-century Viking Age back to life.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.