Florissant, Colorado
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.
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Florissant, Colorado
The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Willow Springs, Illinois
The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.
Ithaca, New York
These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.
Holmdel, New Jersey
Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.
Greenfield Center, New York
Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.
Peekskill, New York
Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
Montreal, Québec
Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
Uppsala, Sweden
The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.
Torun, Poland
Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."
Hamburg, Germany
A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.
Cambridge, England
A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.
Cambridge, England
An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.
Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
Oxford, England
This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments.
Oxford, England
An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.
Bath, England
Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
Vienna, Austria
Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.
Vienna, Austria
A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.