Florence, Italy
Massimo Listri Foundation
An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.
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Florence, Italy
An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Rome, Italy
Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.
Rome, Italy
A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.
Arezzo, Italy
This 21st century cabinet of curiosities includes dinosaur bones, moon rocks, film memorabilia, and more.
Rome, Italy
One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Manchester, England
Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Glastonbury, England
In the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey lies the alleged resting place of the legendary king.
Glastonbury, England
Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.
Tisbury, England
Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.
Warminster, England
The longest hedge maze in the world.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.
Prague, Czechia
An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."
Prague, Czechia
This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.