Places thelibyandesert Wants to Go

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

A biblically accurate ark located beneath a Hong Kong bridge is fun for the whole Christian family.

This preserved puppy was an adorable beacon of charity.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.