Barcelona, Spain
Calder Mercury Fountain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
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Barcelona, Spain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
Jericho, Vermont
Inside this old mill is a collection of images that will always remain frozen in time.
Prague, Czechia
A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.
Paris, France
How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?
Bergamo, Italy
If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Boston, Massachusetts
Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Boston, Massachusetts
These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Budapest, Hungary
A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Salisbury, England
The twice-stolen hand of an alleged card cheat, with its final set of playing cards.
Williams, Arizona
This small museum is dedicated to the study of coprolites, or fossilized poop.
London, England
Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.
London, England
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
Valence, France
When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.
Madrid, Spain
Inside this church are the alleged remains of the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers.
Washington, D.C.
A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.