An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

This museum is a portal to 20th-century Denmark.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

Get a close look at the gigantic remains of long-extinct mammoths.

The former home of queer novelist Yoshiya Nobuko memorializes her contributions to modern-day manga.

This mysterious runestone embedded in a church wall is linked to the medieval cult of Saint Erik.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

In the town of Třeboň, carp is king.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.

A jumble of treasures in a small space, this old-fashioned local museum is full of surprises.

The first version of this stalwart construction appeared around 3,000 years ago.

The monument honors the first (and for a long time, only) African-born philosopher to teach at a German university.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

Dozens of striking Indian symbols cover the second-floor hallways of this rural courthouse.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.