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Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

This 19th century police station now puts the history of the Manchester City Police on display.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

A unique 1980s designed church sits uncomfortably in its traditional Victorian churchyard.