Bomarzo, Italy
The Monsters of Bomarzo
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
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Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Berlin, Germany
Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
Křtiny, Czechia
Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.
Rome, Italy
A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.
Roslin, Scotland
A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.
Paris, France
Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.
Paris, France
The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Paris, France
The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.
Paris, France
This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Paris, France
The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.
Italy
A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.
Glasgow, Scotland
The world's spiciest ice cream comes from Glasgow.