Museums

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.