Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A unique interactive experience of everyday life in communist Yugoslavia—a very different time in Croatian history.

This only museum in the world dedicated solely to mushrooms.

This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.

A peculiar museum that includes many drunken tales, a drunk driving simulator, and much more.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

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

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

This 19th-century zoological collection has withstood the test of time.

One of the oldest bank museums in Europe showcases unusual currencies of the world and other money-related miscellanea.

One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.