Natural History Museums

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.