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Leila's Hair Museum

Independence, Missouri

Leila's Hair Museum

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Saranac Laboratory Museum

Saranac Lake, New York

Saranac Laboratory Museum

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

The Elk of Prince Street

Alexandria, Virginia

The Elk of Prince Street

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

Exterior of the tavern.

Alexandria, Virginia

Gadsby's Tavern

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum

Alexandria, Virginia

Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum

An original apothecary from 1792.

The collection includes eight intact human skeletons.

Brooklyn, New York

The Bone Museum

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

Ilana Goor Museum .

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Ilana Goor Museum

A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.

Machon Ayalon

Rehovot, Israel

Machon Ayalon

Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

Some of the painted boulders (Wikimedia Commons)

Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt

Blue Desert

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

(Flickr/Carlos Affonso)

Qesm Saint Katrin, Egypt

St. Catherine's Monastery

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

Divers explore Heracleion

Alexandria, Egypt

The Lost City of Heracleion

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A skeleton in Wadi Al-Hatan

Ibsheway, Egypt

Wadi al-Hitan (Valley of the Whales)

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

View at one of the pathways of the cemetery

Zawya Sultan Basha, Egypt

City of the Dead

An endless sea of white conical domes.

The Djoser Pyramid (4,700 years old) and a camel (age unknown).

Badrshein, Egypt

Pyramid of Djoser

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

The Hanging Church.

Cairo, Egypt

The Hanging Church

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

The nilometer of Rhoda Island near Cairo

Cairo, Egypt

Nilometer

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Monastery of Saint Simon

Cairo, Egypt

Monastery of Saint Simon

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

Cairo's City of the Dead

Cairo, Egypt

Cairo's City of the Dead

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

A taxidermied lion lies on its side, broken.

Cairo, Egypt

Agricultural Museum of Cairo

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

The Aquarium Grotto Garden

Cairo, Egypt

The Aquarium Grotto Garden

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

Al-Andalus Garden.

Cairo, Egypt

Al-Andalus Garden

A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.

Fonts Point

Borrego Springs, California

Fonts Point

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

Pretty nice for an infrastructure accident!

Mecca, California

Salton Sea

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Galleta Meadows Estate

Borrego Springs, California

Galleta Meadows Estate

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

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