A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.