A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

It’s a bug’s life at this Korean eco-event park, built to host an annual butterfly festival.

Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.

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

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Penn State's giant bug collection.

Over 400,000 birds spend their summers nesting on this small Arctic island.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

Knitting isn't just for grandmothers and counterculture isn't just for punks.