Places Added by Rebekah Otto

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

The world's only known button museum.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.

Buddhist monk remarkably preserved because he started the mummification process while still living.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

Made by river sediment, it is the largest alluvial fan in the world.

A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town.