Porto, Portugal
Banco de Materiais (Bank of Materials)
Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
London, England
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Vectors of Disease Frieze
The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.
Los Angeles, California
Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden
This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.
Rakvere, Estonia
Rakvere Aurochs Statue
This behemoth bovine guards an Estonian town and is a memorial to the lost species.
Florence, Italy
La Specola Zoological Museum
An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.
Halle (Saale), Germany
Nebra Sky Disc
The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Remains of Dolly the Sheep
The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.
Szentendre, Hungary
Szamos Marzipan Exhibition and Workshop
Everything from miniature biblical scenes to life-sized statues are almond-based at this sweet and nutty gallery.
Lille, France
Lille Natural History Museum
An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.
Odense, Denmark
Tidens Samling
This museum is a portal to 20th-century Denmark.
Colunga, Spain
Jurassic Museum of Asturias
A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.
Texcoco, Mexico
Museo Paleontológico Tocuila (Paleontological Museum of Tocuila)
Get a close look at the gigantic remains of long-extinct mammoths.
Kamakura, Japan
Yoshiya Nobuko Memorial Museum
The former home of queer novelist Yoshiya Nobuko memorializes her contributions to modern-day manga.
Uppsala, Sweden
Runestone in Gamla Uppsala Church
This mysterious runestone embedded in a church wall is linked to the medieval cult of Saint Erik.
Berlin, Germany
Wir Waren Nachbarn (We Were Neighbors)
A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.
Erlach, Switzerland
St. Peter’s Island
The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”
Třeboň, Czechia
Třeboň
In the town of Třeboň, carp is king.
Dolní Morava, Czechia
Dolní Morava Sky Walk
The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.
Prague, Czechia
The Thief's Arm at Kostel Sv. Jakuba Vetsiho
A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.
Prague, Czechia
Hrdlička Museum of Anthropology
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Vlychada, Greece
Tomato Industrial Museum
A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.
Deal, England
Deal Maritime and Local History Museum
A jumble of treasures in a small space, this old-fashioned local museum is full of surprises.
Hisor, Tajikistan
Hisor Fort
The first version of this stalwart construction appeared around 3,000 years ago.
Halle (Saale), Germany
Anton Wilhelm Amo Monument
The monument honors the first (and for a long time, only) African-born philosopher to teach at a German university.
