An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

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

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

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.