Natural History

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

London's largest outsider art museum.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

These tracks are believed to be from a panicked dinosaur stampede.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

Penn State's giant bug collection.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.