Bologna, Italy
Relics in the Basilica of San Domenico
A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.
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Bologna, Italy
A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.
Kuchino, Russia
Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.
Samara, Russia
Stalin's secret bunker.
Shchyolkovo, Russia
Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.
Leninskiy rayon, Russia
The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.
Moscow, Russia
Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.
Moscow, Russia
This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Prague, Czechia
Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Zakopane, Poland
Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.
Grabarka, Poland
Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.
Bydgoszcz, Poland
An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.
Czestochowa, Poland
Brought to you by the makers of fiberglass dinosaurs.
Noordwijk, Netherlands
The birthplace of most all of Europe's space missions is here on the Dutch coast.
Utrecht, Netherlands
This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.