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Hitchcock's "stone book."
Amherst, Massachusetts

Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.
Dinosaurs on the facade.
Mexico City, Mexico

Museo de Geología (Museum of the Institute of Geology)

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.
Entrance to the museum.
Zacatecas, Mexico

Mina El Edén Rock and Mineral Museum

The spectacular subterranean collection includes dazzling minerals, including a piece of "kryptonite."
The corridor that connects the two hallways.
Madrid, Spain

Carpetana Metro Station Museum

Replicas of fossils unearthed during renovation work reveal how this area would have looked millions of years ago.
The Garden Park Fossil Area.
Cañon City, Colorado

Garden Park Fossil Area

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.
Dinosaurs overlooking the valley.
Cuenca, Spain

Castilla-La Mancha Paleontological Museum

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.
Dinosaur footprints in Torotoro National Park.
Bolivia

Torotoro National Park Dinosaur Footprints

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.
A sampling of the teeth found in the Pit of Bones.
caves

These Tiny Teeth Suggest Neanderthals Evolved Earlier Than We Thought

They came from Spain’s eerie “Pit of Bones.”
Sabrina Imbler May 16, 2019
Five of the seven moa footprints uncovered in the riverbank.
animals

Found: 7 Ancient Footprints of a Giant, Flightless Bird

They could be up to 12 million years old.
Sabrina Imbler May 13, 2019
View of the museum ground floor with mammoth skeleton in the foreground.
Lille, France

Lille Natural History Museum

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.
The rounded base of an Eospermatopteris stump.
Gilboa, New York

Gilboa Fossils

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.
The many-legged millipede, locked away in amber.
preserved specimens

Found: A 99-Million-Year-Old Millipede, Perfectly Preserved in Amber

The newly described species has a five-unit compound eye and an unbristled butt.
Sabrina Imbler May 2, 2019
Lifesize model of Allosaurus with the museum in the backdrop.
Colunga, Spain

Jurassic Museum of Asturias

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.
<em>Callichimaera perplexa</em> on the prowl, as imagined by a paleoartist.
mythology

Found: The Goofiest Crab That Ever Lived

It has the legs of a sea scorpion, the body of a lobster, and the eyes of an enormous larva.
Sabrina Imbler April 26, 2019
The limestone landscape.
Borgholm N, Sweden

Neptuni Åkrar

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.
A Eubrontes and two smaller Grallator tracks with foot for size comparison.
Middlefield, Connecticut

Powder Hill Dinosaur Park

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.
An artis's rendition of <em>Simbakubwa kutokaafrika</em>.
fossils

Found: One of the Largest Carnivorous Land Mammals Ever, in a Museum Drawer

Despite its massive size, it had been overlooked for 40 years.
Jonathan Carey April 18, 2019
Haddonfield, New Jersey

Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.