Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

What killed this humpback whale is a mystery, but its remains have become legendary.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

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