Melbourne, Australia
Wunderkammer
The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.
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Melbourne, Australia
The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."
Edinburgh, Scotland
A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.
Belize
Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.
Champa, Mexico
The ruins of an ancient Mayan city, beautifully preserved and only accessible by boat.
Tikal, Guatemala
The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.
Mexico
The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.
Belize
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
Ambergris Caye, Belize
This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.
Dump, Belize
A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.
José María Morelos, Mexico
Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.
Palenque, Mexico
An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.
Mexico
A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.
Raymond Island, Australia
Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.
Melbourne, Australia
Occult books, tarot, oddities.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Adelaide, Australia
Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Douai, France
This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.
Rouen, France
A French museum of wrought iron.
Rouen, France
An ancient ossuary in Rouen.
Rouen, France
Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.