Ottawa, Ontario
'Maman'
Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.
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Ottawa, Ontario
Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.
Chester, England
Chester Cathedral is home to a unique painting crafted on a canvas of cobwebs.
Chiang Mai, Thailand
This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.
Davis, California
This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.
London, England
London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.
Musteika, Lithuania
A tiny traditional village keeps an ancient method of beekeeping alive.
Berlin, Germany
Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.
Rhodes, Greece
Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.
Williamstown, Vermont
The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.
Tokyo, Japan
A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.
Bronx, New York
The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.
Mexico City, Mexico
CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.
Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
One man's personal collection of more than 2,000 creepy-crawlies from around the world.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.
Toms River, New Jersey
A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.
Helensburgh, Australia
An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
A Guinness World Record-holding social enterprise whose shows don't shy away from heavy themes.
Paris, France
The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.
San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Mexico
A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.
Monte Albán, Mexico
These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.
Sharonville, Ohio
A free park where visitors can learn about and collect 440 million-year-old fossils.
Karla, India
A complex of ancient Buddhist rock-cut caves with a large, well preserved prayer hall.
Brooklyn, New York
A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.