Basel, Switzerland
Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel
One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.
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Basel, Switzerland
One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Valencia, Spain
This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.
Liverpool, England
19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.
Mountain View, California
From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
York, Maine
The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.
Rye, New Hampshire
Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.
Rockport, Massachusetts
An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Lyme Regis, England
A midnight snack that lights up the night.
Bournemouth, England
Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.
Ventnor, England
The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.
Ryde, England
Obscene versions of this artist's work are the most popular.
Margate, England
Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.