Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

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

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

One of the last surviving ancient Buddhist sites in the region, it escaped the brunt of several Hun invasions thanks to its remote location.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.