Berlin, Germany
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Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.
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Berlin, Germany
Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.
Berlin, Germany
Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.
Berlin, Germany
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Berlin, Germany
A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.
Berlin, Germany
An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands
A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
Livorno, Italy
This Tuscan church contains a gallery of over 700 ex-votos depicting near-death experiences.
Venzone, Italy
Meet the oldest inhabitants of this Italian hamlet, a series of oddly preserved mummies.
Bologna, Italy
The remains of an ancient Roman city are hidden underneath Bologna's beautiful public library.
Avigliana, Italy
Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.
Sanremo, Italy
There once was a man named Lear / Who found limericks so dear / His final resting space / Is an unusual place / Most people don’t know he’s here.
Lodi, Italy
A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.
Naples, Italy
Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.
Genoa, Italy
Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.
Naples, Italy
This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.
Cagliari, Italy
A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.
Albenga, Italy
A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."
Matera, Italy
Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.
Gainesville, Florida
The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.