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This mid-century mural portrays humankind's spiritual and scientific journey.

This anatomical sculpture raises awareness about violence against women and promotes gender equality.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

From buck blood to Theriak miracle tonic, this collection of Renaissance chemist's gear look's like a wizard's pantry.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

A collection of miniature, symbolic sculptures hides in plain sight across Kyiv.

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.

This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.

Burial site of a Jewish prophet revered in Iran.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.