Sankt Vith, Belgium
Sourdough Library
Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.
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Sankt Vith, Belgium
Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.
Sluis, Netherlands
This museum is filled with an eclectic collection of unique inventions.
Orniac, France
An unusual, funny and fantastic open air museum.
Zoetermeer, Netherlands
A multi-story, retro videogame time capsule in the Netherlands.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.
Grijpskerke, Netherlands
A family-run botanical garden with tropical plants, artsy sculptures, and eccentric buildings.
Heidelberg, Germany
A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.
Ottrott, France
An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.
Strasbourg, France
This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.
Kehl, Germany
First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.
Madrid, Spain
A must for film lovers in Madrid and home to the Spanish Film Library's projection space.
Turin, Italy
This Art Nouveau mansion was used as the "House of the Screaming Child" in Dario Argento’s giallo classic.
Rome, Italy
Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.
Hamburg, Germany
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Turin, Italy
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
Vienna, Austria
This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.
Säter, Sweden
A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.
Naples, Italy
An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.
Tambov, Russia
A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.
Copenhagen, Denmark
A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.
Rome, Italy
One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.
Porto, Portugal
When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.