Schaffhausen, Switzerland
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This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.
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Schaffhausen, Switzerland
This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.
Tolochenaz, Switzerland
The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.
Ennenda, Switzerland
The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.
Lausanne, Switzerland
A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.
Ostermundigen, Switzerland
This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.
Zurich, Switzerland
Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.
Vallorbe, Switzerland
Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.
Leuk, Switzerland
For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Beatenberg, Switzerland
Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.
Gadmen, Switzerland
This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
Wasserauen, Switzerland
This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.
Townsville, Australia
A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.
Mexico City, Mexico
The collection of intricate sculptures includes one carved from a mammoth's tusk
Tlalnepantla, Mexico
The 19th-century hacienda house is filled with Aztec sculptures.
Mexico City, Mexico
Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.
Oegstgeest, Netherlands
The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.
Trujillo, Peru
Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.