Paris, France
Musée des Arts et Métiers
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
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Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.
Shanghai, China
An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.
Naples, Italy
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Naples, Italy
The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Paris, France
Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.
Salzburg, Austria
Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.
Dietikon, Switzerland
A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Höganäs, Sweden
Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.
Neuheim, Switzerland
These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.
Andermatt, Switzerland
A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Portland, Oregon
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
Birmingham, Alabama
This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.
Sylacauga, Alabama
A sinuous monument to the first person who was struck by a meteorite.
Mejorada del Campo, Spain
A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.
Rosscarbery, Ireland
One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Oddington, England
Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.
Bartlett, Illinois
This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.