Vienna, Austria
Kunstkammer Wien
The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.
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Vienna, Austria
The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Uppsala, Sweden
Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.
Stockholm, Sweden
Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.
Stockholm, Sweden
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
Uppsala, Sweden
The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Liège, Belgium
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Nuremberg, Germany
This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.
Nuremberg, Germany
This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Shartlesville, Pennsylvania
An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Leiden, Netherlands
A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.
Dusseldorf, Germany
Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.