NATALIJA UGRINA

Looking for weird museums in Zagreb ? You're in for a treat! Even though Zagreb is worldwide known for its Advent Christmas market, many people don't know this Croatian capital is home to some of the world's most unusual and quirky museums. From the world's first Museum of Broken Relationships to the original Hangover Museum , the weird museums in Zagreb have pioneered concepts that have been copied across the globe. I've visited my share of weird museums around the world—fr

I was on my way to Pamplona when a name I’d once read whispered through my thoughts — Zugarramurdi . Hidden in the green folds of Navarre, right by the French border, this village had been calling my curiosity for years. People called it Spain’s Salem , a place where myth, fear, and faith once collided under moonlit skies. The road curved through pine forests and mist, and by the time I arrived, the air already felt heavier — as if the hills themselves were keeping secrets. I

Goethe House Frankfurt stands as one of Germany's most haunting literary landmarks—the birthplace where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe conceived his masterpiece about a man who sells his soul to the devil. There's something undeniably eerie about standing in the very room where one of literature's most famous devil's pacts was written. As I climbed the elegant staircase of Goethe House Frankfurt, my fingers trailing along the polished wooden banister, I couldn't help but wonder:

When I first walked through the gates of Clos Lucé in Amboise, I wasn't prepared for how intimate it would feel. Leonardo da Vinci Amboise - this is where it all happened. This wasn't some grand museum with velvet ropes and crowds - this was a home. Leonardo da Vinci's home. The place where one of history's greatest minds spent his final three years in Leonardo da Vinci Amboise, far from his beloved Italy, creating, dreaming, and ultimately, dying. But as I would soon discove