This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.