Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

A charming little museum founded by the designer of the Statue of Liberty.

A vast archive of cultural artifacts collected from numerous expeditions across Africa and Asia.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

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

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.