Saumur, France
The Mushroom Museum
A subterranean museum where mushrooms still grow in the tunnels of a centuries-old quarry.
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Saumur, France
A subterranean museum where mushrooms still grow in the tunnels of a centuries-old quarry.
Sorano, Italy
This network of roads is one of the most unique Etruscan creations ever discovered.
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
This archaeological site built into a tuff outcrop is filled with rock dwellings, the ruins of a medieval castle, and a necropolis.
Buxton, England
A peaceful Elves-fairytale landscape hides an evil scar, a chasm so dark and daunting that for centuries it was believed to be the gateway to hell.
Ekebol, Sweden
Location of a royal cave rave in the 1800s, now largely forgotten.
Pirgos Dirou, Greece
This cave complex might provide a link between the Neolithic and the Classical Greek period.
Dublin, Ireland
A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.
Basel, Switzerland
A journey through every aspect of the human body.
Toulouse, France
A journey through the history of medicine throughout the centuries.
Mexico City, Mexico
Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Naples, Italy
An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.
Naples, Italy
A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.
Valkenburg, Netherlands
Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.
Brussels, Belgium
This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.
Naples, Italy
The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.
Milos, Greece
An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.