Turin, Italy
Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
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Turin, Italy
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Turin, Italy
See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.
Tianshui, China
A hidden Buddhist gem accessible only by boat.
Banja, Serbia
The remains of a luxurious 14th-century church built by the last despot of Serbia.
Wah, Pakistan
A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.
Pokhara, Nepal
Feast your eyes upon hundreds of Nepal's native butterflies and moths.
Pokhara, Nepal
A museum with a window view of the Himalayas and an on-site climbing wall.
Kapilvastu, Nepal
The site where Sakyamuni Buddha first met his father after achieving enlightenment.
Kapilvastu, Nepal
A pair of stupas that archaeologists believe were built to honor the parents of Siddhartha Gautama (aka Lord Buddha).
St. Charles, Illinois
This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.
Stockholm, Sweden
This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.
Stockholm, Sweden
A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.
Innsbruck, Austria
This splendid tomb may look fantastic, but there's nothing in it...
Cambridge, England
Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.
Tarrenz, Austria
Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.
Barcelona, Spain
Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.
Munich, Germany
A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.
Basel, Switzerland
A journey through every aspect of the human body.
Lausanne, Switzerland
A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.
Cusco, Peru
An extraterrestrial-themed art exhibit makes the perfect place to crash-land while interacting with Andean culture and history.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh’s version of the Sistine Chapel is this former church, with an interior covered in paintings done by one woman over the course of nearly a decade.
Otsuchi, Japan
A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.