Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contraception and Abortion
This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.
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Vienna, Austria
This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.
Vienna, Austria
Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.
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.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Vienna, Austria
Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Tokyo, Japan
Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.
Ogasawara, Japan
This volcanic island in the Pacific just keeps growing and growing.
Isahaya, Japan
This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Honorable ranks graduating from the prestigious Army War College work hard to maintain their high standards of honor and erase those who don't.
Petersburg, Virginia
An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.
Côn Đảo, Vietnam
Executed at age 19, this Vietnamese schoolgirl is now a national hero and symbol of revolutionary spirit.
Little Dunmow, England
It's believed Matilda Fitzwalter's life was the basis for the famed literary figure.
Boge, Sweden
A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland.
Tokyo, Japan
This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."
Asuka-mura, Japan
This frescoed ancient burial mound is a colorful window into China’s influence in early Japan.
Sado, Japan
Japan's longest-running music festival takes place on an isolated butterfly-shaped island.
Sado, Japan
These unconventional "tub boats" let locals row around the island's turbulent coast.
Tokyo, Japan
A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.
Itoigawa, Japan
You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.