Florence, Italy
Museo Opificio delle Pietre Dure
Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.
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Florence, Italy
Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Pianlivere, Italy
The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.
Siena, Italy
Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.
Caltagirone, Italy
142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
Bielefeld, Germany
According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.
Ohrdruf, Germany
Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.
Alfeld, Germany
The difficulty of getting a good night's sleep is an age-old affliction according to the one-of-a-kind Snoring Museum.
Peenemünde, Germany
The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.
Neustadt, Germany
The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.
Berlin, Germany
After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.
Bremen, Germany
Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.
Göttingen, Germany
These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.
Meißen, Germany
From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.
Bremen, Germany
The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.
Berlin, Germany
A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.
Berlin, Germany
A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.
Bottrop, Germany
This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.
Chevilly, France
The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.
Ars-en-Ré, France
For those late-night mollusk cravings.
Colmar, France
A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.
Ajaccio, France
Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.