Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Thousands of miniature bronze sculptures have taken over this city square creating a unique art installation.

This abandoned office building is a lasting example of Soviet-era architecture.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.

A small collection of magic tricks and memorabilia is now an apartment-sized museum.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

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

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

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

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

This set of concrete chambers resonates according to different notes of octaves.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

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

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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