Bangkok, Thailand
Siriraj Medical Museum
A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.
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Bangkok, Thailand
A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.
Monte di Cuma, Italy
Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.
Denizli Merkez, Turkey
A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.
Chiang Rai, Thailand
A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.
Paris, France
Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.
Kampot Province, Cambodia
A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.
Krong Battambang, Cambodia
Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.
Berlin, Germany
An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.
Salzburg, Austria
Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.
Vienna, Austria
A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Walbrzych, Poland
This mysterious and once-grand memorial still embodies a remarkable architectural vision.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Dresden, Germany
Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.
Olomouc, Czechia
Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.