Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

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

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

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

This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments.

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

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.