Brussels, Belgium
Museum of Erotics and Mythology
A hidden museum focusing on the sexual aspects of anthropology.
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Brussels, Belgium
A hidden museum focusing on the sexual aspects of anthropology.
Brussels, Belgium
Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.
Brussels, Belgium
This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.
Brussels, Belgium
Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.
Tervuren, Belgium
A jazz band formed by African water animals in the heart of Flemish Brabant.
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.
Leuven, Belgium
Banished from town, this local jester concocted a clever return.
Leuven, Belgium
This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.
Leuven, Belgium
A chapel quietly preserves the remains of Father Damien, who devoted his life to caring for leprosy patients.
Leuven, Belgium
Where George Lemaître discovered the expanding nature of the universe.
Leuven, Belgium
This statue of a studious young woman stands at the site of Leuven's first college to accept female students.
Leuven, Belgium
A replica of a 17th-century map of the stars stands in the courtyard of a Belgian university.
Leuven, Belgium
This 19th-century zoological collection has withstood the test of time.
Washington, D.C.
The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.
Sheffield, England
A collection of throne-inspired sculptures dot the landscape of Wincobank.
Sheffield, England
Floating on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal is a contorted canal boat that honors the waterway’s heritage.
Barrow-in-Furness, England
A modern museum built within a Victorian dry dock charts the history of the industrial town.
Boston, Massachusetts
Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Boston, Massachusetts
A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.
Boston, Massachusetts
The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Boston, Massachusetts
Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.
Konstanz, Germany
A sculpture of a courtesan towers above Lake Constance, recalling a church scandal.
Brooklyn, New York
Richly symbolic public artworks that have been reconfigured for the 21st century.