Ano Vouves, Greece
Olive Tree of Vouves
The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.
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Ano Vouves, Greece
The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.
Savannah, Georgia
Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.
Casabermeja, Spain
This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.
Vienna, Austria
The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Tarrenz, Austria
Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.
Stannington, England
St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Ostermundigen, Switzerland
This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.
Leuk, Switzerland
For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.
Ulm, Germany
A typical crusty old museum this isn't.
Lübbenau/Spreewald, Germany
A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.
Hamburg, Germany
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Berlin, Germany
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
Berlin, Germany
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.
Île-d'Aix, France
Supposed home of the camel ridden by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign.
Strasbourg, France
This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.
Rouen, France
Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.
Paris, France
The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."
Raufarhöfn, Iceland
This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.
Hamragarðar, Iceland
This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.