Bítov, Czechia
Bítov Castle
The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.
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Bítov, Czechia
The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.
Brno, Czechia
A metal forest of peas pays tribute to the founding father of genetics.
Raciborz, Poland
The biggest exposition of dental equipement in Europe. And a Mummy.
Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Paris, France
Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.
Barcelona, Spain
A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.
Wolmirstedt, Germany
Where the interconnection of German power grids should be.
Roggenburg, Germany
Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!
Munich, Germany
One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
Beelitz, Germany
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
San Marino, San Marino
High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.
Chisinau, Moldova
There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.
Krakow, Poland
A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
Tallinn, Estonia
Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
Naples, Italy
The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.
Moldova
This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.
London, England
These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."