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Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

After suggesting criminals be burned to death on this rock, a king's advisor suffered his own punishment.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.