This small university museum houses a priceless collection of scientific instruments.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Philippine art and culture are on display at this university museum.

The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.