A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

A pilgrimage site where people ask Saint Dymphna to watch over those who are not of sound mind.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.