Places Edited by Simpluree

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Floating pink tap installed for a flower show in London.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.