Kutna Hora, Czechia
Sedlec Ossuary ‘Bone Church’
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
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Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Naples, Italy
The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
Leiden, Netherlands
A former plague hospital turned medical museum.
Turin, Italy
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Pramarzo, Italy
Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.
Chios, Greece
Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.
Berlin, Germany
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
Büren, Germany
This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.
Hirschau, Germany
A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.
Feucht, Germany
Small museum dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern astronautics.
Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, France
Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.
Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, France
The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.
Bar-le-Duc, France
Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Werfen, Austria
The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.
Vienna, Austria
A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Offaly, Ireland
Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.
Liverpool, England
19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”