These natural wonders have taken millennia to form into the stunning marvels they are today.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.