Places Auros Harman Wants to Go

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

This small university museum houses a priceless collection of scientific instruments.

Philippine art and culture are on display at this university museum.

The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The Lund University's former gym houses a museum focusing on the creative process of art.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

Savor the famous tempura-fried pork tenderloin sandwich at this long-standing Kansas City food counter.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

A bridge that dates back to the 12th century is said to have made the devil very angry.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.