Places Edited by wurzeltod

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Venice's island of the dead.

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!