Museums and Collections

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.

This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.

A delightful museum entirely dedicated to the tiny homes of dolls.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

Aliens and monsters lurk inside this museum dedicated to one man's lifelong adoration of all things sci-fi.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.