This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

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