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A mausoleum dedicated to a warrior felled by misplaced loyalty and tragic circumstances.

The largest Chinese cemetery in the world outside of China dates back to the 15th century.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

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

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

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

An early 20th-century sanatorium, long abandoned and now being reclaimed by nature.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.

Walk or bike along a narrow strip of Belgium sandwiched by German territory.

Strange secondhand shop showcasing taxidermy and oddies

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.