Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

One of Oxford's greatest treasures likely belonged to the legendary King Alfred the Great.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

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

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

Cross mysteriously appeared for 36 years.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

A pyramid in Central Europe of unknown origin.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, standing at this site just outside Vienna, Austria, the sky would have been found beneath your feet.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

A history of heat is on display at this unique Austrian museum.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.