Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum Vrolik
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
Haarlem, Netherlands
Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.
Delft, Netherlands
Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.
Vatican City
Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.
Rome, Italy
The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.
Rome, Italy
The Pope’s secret escape route.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Alameda, California
This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.
Osaka, Japan
The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.
Osaka, Japan
Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.
Osaka, Japan
One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.
San Francisco, California
A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.
Cambridge, England
A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.
Buinen, Netherlands
The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Inspired by "The Starry Night" this Dutch bike path turns into a glowing work of art each night.
Giessen, Germany
This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.
Bucharest, Romania
Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.
Formerum, Netherlands
Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.
Assen, Netherlands
Remarkably preserved body discovered in a peat bog.
Zwiggelte, Netherlands
A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.
Franeker, Netherlands
Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.