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Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

Legend has it that this stone moves down to the river sometimes to have a drink.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

Everything from alchemy books to building plans for the Eiffel Tower are housed inside this museum.

This large sculpture of white plates and forms is actually a huge sound amplifier.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

Though it may look like a businessman's lost luggage, this case suspended under a highway bridge is actually a contemporary art installation.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

Along the Rhine, about a mile from the historic Munster, learn the heartrending story of two lovers torn asunder, cast into unknown layers of time and space.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

A former hen house turned curiosity cabinet displays one man's lifelong fascination with cannibalism.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

This poignant sculpture of a gnarled weapon is a symbol of non-violence.

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

This Swedish astronomical clock was in storage for almost a century before its glorious workings were put on display once more.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.