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A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This outsider art house has gone from clinical creation to astounding artwork.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

Before building her own tombstone, an untrained artist created a concrete menagerie in her garden.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”