The middle finger of modernity.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

"Medieval" castle built in the mid-20th century by one family.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.