Paris, France
Père Lachaise Cemetery
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
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Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Berlin, Germany
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Berlin, Germany
Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.
Berlin, Germany
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
Berlin, Germany
This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
Nouadhibou, Mauritania
The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.
Nordstrand, Germany
A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.
Choum, Mauritania
Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.
Dresden, Germany
Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.
Berlin, Germany
Come stay at a live-in art installation.
Berlin, Germany
Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."
Goslar, Germany
This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.
Usedom, Germany
A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.
Kassel, Germany
At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.
Neustadt am Kulm, Germany
A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.
Heligoland, Germany
This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.
Sulzbach, Germany
Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."
Salzburg, Austria
At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.
Hirschau, Germany
A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.
Bamberg, Germany
A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.