A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.