Boulder, Colorado
Media Archaeology Lab
A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.
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Boulder, Colorado
A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.
Austin, Texas
The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.
New Haven, Connecticut
A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.
Montreal, Québec
The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.
London, England
The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.
Göttingen, Germany
This small university museum houses a priceless collection of scientific instruments.
Amherst, Massachusetts
This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.
Toluca, Mexico
The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.
Quezon City, Philippines
Philippine art and culture are on display at this university museum.
Groningen, Netherlands
Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.
Middletown, Connecticut
A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.
Krakow, Poland
Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.
Vermillion, South Dakota
One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.
Lund, Sweden
The Lund University's former gym houses a museum focusing on the creative process of art.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.
Freiberg, Germany
A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.
Luras, Italy
At an estimated 3,800 years old, this olive tree is one of the oldest on earth.
Portland, Oregon
Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.
Dunfermline, Scotland
The remains of "the Pearl of Scotland" can be found inside this church.
Franklin, Indiana
A burial site located in the middle of a road.
Alajuela, Costa Rica
Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.
Gibraltar
There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.
Guatuso, Costa Rica
The translucent turquoise hue of these natural swimming pools comes from a high concentration of minerals.