The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

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.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.