A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

One of the oldest amusement rides in existence was a huge disappointment to its creator.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.