Lucca, Italy
The Incorruptible St. Zita
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.
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Lucca, Italy
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.
Madrid, Spain
An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Madrid, Spain
Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Prague, Czechia
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.
Manchester, England
Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.
Manchester, England
19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.
Canterbury, England
This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.
Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands
This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.
Antwerp, Belgium
Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.
Brussels, Belgium
Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Brussels, Belgium
From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.
Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.