Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Catacombs turned marketplace.