Kurilskiy Rayon, Russia
Urup Island
Is it an island or a volcano? That question probably explains why it's uninhabited.
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Kurilskiy Rayon, Russia
Is it an island or a volcano? That question probably explains why it's uninhabited.
Alghero, Italy
Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Montreal, Québec
One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A nomadic museum known for its art exhibitions about religion and faith.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum preserving torture methods from the past.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.
Florence, Italy
The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The Natural History Museum that time forgot.
Bologna, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The history and future of cannabis.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.
Centerport, New York
An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.
Havana, Cuba
His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."
London, England
The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.
Prague, Czechia
A crucified and bearded female saint.
Oxford, England
A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.
Bangkok, Thailand
A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.
Clintonville, Wisconsin
A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Bolzano, Italy
Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.