A legendary music collector donated his entire collection to the entire city of Memphis.

A museum dedicated to preserving, promoting, and advancing the art and craft of fine metalwork.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

Browse through a century of this principality's first popular export.

One of the largest statues in Israel was erected to protest pollution.

Built by a king and rebuilt by an emperor, this aqueduct transported water for 1,200 years to this ancient Mediterranean hub.

A stunning mosque owes its design to an Ottoman ruler nicknamed "the Butcher."

Deep in the Negev Desert, the world's tallest solar tower looks like a sight straight out of science fiction.