A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

World's largest working waterwheel has been around for over 150 years.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.