Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

This impressive collection of skulls and bones was gathered by an ex-zookeeper who took advantage of a pig plague.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.