Dingolfing, Germany
Dingolfing Ossuary
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
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Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Cagliari, Italy
A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.
Pisa, Italy
Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.
Brussels, Belgium
Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.
Bologna, Italy
An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Budapest, Hungary
A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.
Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Sligo, Ireland
A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.
Sarandë District, Albania
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
Saint Austell, England
400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
A Coruña, Spain
Giant granite sculptures representing family on the northern coast of Spain.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."
Lüneburg, Germany
This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.
Stilton, England
Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.
Uppsala, Sweden
A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.
High Wycombe, England
17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weight.
Memphis, Tennessee
Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.