What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

Europe's largest dinosaur museum was founded by a passionate autodidact.

This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.

This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

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

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

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

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.