This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The place where houses are born.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

Art and a pun, all in one.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.