Tchirozérine, Niger
Last Tree of Ténéré
The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Tchirozérine, Niger
The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Warsaw, Poland
A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.
Mirny, Russia
The world's second-largest excavated hole.
Lehi, Utah
The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.
São Paulo, Brazil
A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.
Dietikon, Switzerland
A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.
Houston, Texas
A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.
Paris, France
An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.
Tucson, Arizona
An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.
Williamsburg, Virginia
America's first public mental health facility.
Stromboli, Italy
A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.
Valladolid, Spain
A somewhat mysterious biomedical museum housed inside a Spanish university.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.
San Francisco, California
A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.
Paris, France
A museum of magic with a Sadist past.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Dusseldorf, Germany
A varied collection of brains in alcohol.
Dresden, Germany
Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.
New York, New York
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.