Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wanamaker Building
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Vienna, Austria
One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Budapest, Hungary
A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.
Prague, Czechia
Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Beatenberg, Switzerland
Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.
Wiscasset, Maine
An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).
Salzburg, Austria
Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Budapest, Hungary
A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.
Sibiu, Romania
A stunning 18th century pharmacy and medieval chemist's collection.
Morristown, New Jersey
A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Franeker, Netherlands
Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.
Garni, Armenia
A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.
Bradford, England
A museum devoted to the science of color.
Remouchamps, Belgium
Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.
Baraboo, Wisconsin
A large circus museum with summer performances.
Ry, Denmark
Denmark's famous pseudo-hill.