Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A science teacher's dream.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

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

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.