This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The largest Chinese cemetery in the world outside of China dates back to the 15th century.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.