Minski rajon, Belarus
The Stalin Line
Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.
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Minski rajon, Belarus
Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.
Hrodna, Belarus
This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.
Brest, Belarus
A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.
Brest, Belarus
Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.
Marbach, Austria
The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.
Salzburg, Austria
A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.
Vienna, Austria
A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.
Salzburg, Austria
This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.
Graz, Austria
Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.
Herrnbaumgarten, Austria
The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.
Vienna, Austria
This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.
Vienna, Austria
This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.
Vienna, Austria
The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Wattens, Austria
Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.
Salzburg, Austria
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Ordino, Andorra
Extensive Orthodox icon collection in Andorra.
Ordino, Andorra
Some of the smallest works of art in existence.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Sarandë District, Albania
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
Silver City, Nevada
An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.
Elko, Nevada
The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.