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What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

Tens of thousands of rocks make up what is thought to be a giant star calendar.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.