This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

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

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

See tools once used for processing this coffee-substitute plant before sampling its flavor firsthand.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.