Natural History

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

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

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

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

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Unusual outdoor collection of sculptures.

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

London's largest outsider art museum.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

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

This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.