Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

The world's only silo that was topped by two revolving restaurants has unfortunately been demolished.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

Gliwice Radio Tower, likely the tallest wooden structure in the world.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.