Places NycterisBerna Wants to Go

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The technology company Ericsson erected a real rune stone to mark the birthplace of the wireless technology.

For many people the Hungarian Parliament building is a must-see stop on any visit to the capital but there is an equally stunning replica hidden in a basement.

This great example of a Victorian museum claims to be the oldest purpose-built museum in the UK.

Centuries before masks and sanitizer, Oslo’s oldest public monument remembers its last plague dead.

These magnificent medieval carvings can be viewed up close in this amazing church

A rare example of one of the world's first printed books

A relic from ancient Egypt that is purported to have a curse associated with it

This museum reconstructs the original operating room for laboratory animals from 1934-1950

A concrete masterpiece that looks part fortress, part bullring, and part science-fiction relic

Most visits to the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid ignore the eeriest part of the building, its crypt

During a fire in 1831, this remarkable piece of Anglo-Saxon stonework used as a coffin lid was discovered beneath the Chapter House floor of Bristol Cathedral

This sculpture is a reminder of the old lamplighters of Madrid, a profession that is now extinct

The world's largest monastic library is also a baroque artistic masterpiece

A treasure trove of material within the University of Pittsburgh Library Systems has spawned the world's first and only center for academic study of the horror genre.