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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Blaschka Glass Flowers

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

Garni Gorge

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.
Bradford, England

Colour Experience Museum

A museum devoted to the science of color.
Ettal, Germany

Linderhof Palace

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
Schwangau, Germany

Neuschwanstein Castle

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."
Mauritania

Richat Structure

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
Budapest, Hungary

György Ráth Museum

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.
Tchirozérine, Niger

Last Tree of Ténéré

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.
Independence, Missouri

Leila's Hair Museum

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw Fotoplastikon

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.
Lehi, Utah

Hutchings Museum Institute

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.
São Paulo, Brazil

Butantan Snake Institute

A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.
Dietikon, Switzerland

Bruno Weber's Weinrebenpark

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.
Tucson, Arizona

Coit Museum of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.
San Francisco, California

Musée Mécanique

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
New York, New York

The Evolution Store

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
Frederick, Maryland

National Museum of Civil War Medicine

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Williamsburg, Virginia

Eastern State Hospital

America's first public mental health facility.
Indianapolis, Indiana

Indiana Medical History Museum

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.
Cleveland, Ohio

Dittrick Medical Museum

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.
Zadar, Croatia

Sea Organ

A musical instrument played by the sea.
San Francisco, California

Museum of the Eye

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.
Charleston, South Carolina

Macaulay Museum of Dental History

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.
Mount Colah, Australia

Ancient Aboriginal Astronomy

An ancient rock engraving shows Aboriginals used their advanced knowledge of the stars to hunt and gather.