Places thelibyandesert Wants to Go

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.