Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.