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

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Gigantic Romanian salt mines used to heal respiratory conditions.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.

An underground city of salt.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.