Bristol, England
Bristol Museum Natural History Collection
It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.
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Bristol, England
It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.
London, England
The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.
London, England
A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.
Sibiu, Romania
Packed to the ceiling with antique taxidermy and hunting arms.
Haywards Heath, England
Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.
Tervuren, Belgium
A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.
Budapest, Hungary
A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.
Darmstadt, Germany
This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.
Darmstadt, Germany
The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.
Bern, Switzerland
Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.
Fribourg, Switzerland
This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.
Pavia, Italy
A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...
Bologna, Italy
This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.
Bra, Italy
A collection of wonderfully preserved 19th-century creatures, as well as hunting trophies seized during a police raid.
Genoa, Italy
Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.
Hamburg, Germany
This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.
Trutnov, Czechia
Each spring, residents of this Czech town hoist a 'slain' metal dragon onto the city hall to commemorate a local medieval legend
Bítov, Czechia
The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.
Prague, Czechia
A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.
Kamenický Šenov, Czechia
Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.
Panenský Týnec, Czechia
The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.
Prague, Czechia
Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.
Pilsen, Czechia
Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.