Bergen, Norway
Fantoft Stave Church
The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.
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Bergen, Norway
The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
Alnwick, England
This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.
Reykjavik, Iceland
This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.
Bíldudalur, Iceland
The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Stockholm, Sweden
An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.
Inari, Finland
This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.
Naantali, Finland
A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.
Munich, Germany
One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
Rapa, Poland
A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.
Ketrzyn, Poland
This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.
Gdańsk, Poland
The site of the first battle of World War II.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Bassenge, Belgium
A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Montalegre, Portugal
Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Wicklow, Ireland
On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.
Pavia, Italy
A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...