Stockholm, Sweden
Victoriahuset (Victoria House)
A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.
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Stockholm, Sweden
A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.
Esrange, Sweden
The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.
Tallinn, Estonia
A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.
Tallinn, Estonia
The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.
Tallinn, Estonia
Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.
Tallinn, Estonia
This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.
Tallinn, Estonia
"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sound travels strangely in this underground whispering gallery.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.
Linköping, Sweden
From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.
Säve, Sweden
This declassified Cold War bunker hosts a large collection of Swedish aircraft.
Lviv, Ukraine
Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.
Kyiv, Ukraine
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Kyiv, Ukraine
One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.
Hodovytsya, Ukraine
The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.
Kyiv, Ukraine
A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.
Kyiv, Ukraine
A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."
Odesa, Ukraine
The largest catacomb system in the world.
Sweden
This fantastic cave remained unexplored until 1948 when three schoolboys discovered a hidden entrance.
Uppsala, Sweden
The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.
Ishøj, Denmark
Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.
Borås, Sweden
The art critic claiming that "only an ape could have done this" was in fact right.