~ AMAZING and UNBELIEVABLE places that will inspire, intrigue, and delight you!! ~

aka my bucket list - dreaming of a post-pandemic world...

Natural Places:

• Grand Island Ice Caves (Munising, Michigan, USA)
• Also the Eben Ice Caves in Michigan as well
• Salton Sea (California, USA)
• Ice Castles (Okay this isn't really manmade, but it is outdoors--ice sculptures! in various locations, USA)
• White Sands National Park (New Mexico, USA)
• The La Brea Tar Pits, plus the George C. Page Museum (Los Angelos, Califorina, USA)
• The Blood Beach (Hormuz Island, Iran) - Not real blood of course, but the sand & water are red due to lots of iron!

Unnatural Places (like museums!):

• The High Desert Museum (Bend, Oregon, USA) - Home of Clyde the American Badger!!!
• Coral Castle Museum (Miami, Florida, USA)
• Smithsonian National Postal Museum (Washington D.C., USA)
• Santa Claus Village (Arctic Circle, Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finalnd)
• International Cryptozoology Museum (Portland, Maine, USA)
• Museo de Arte Popular (English: Museum of Folk Art) in Mexico City, Mexico - Wikipedia Page
• The Australian Reptile Park (Somersby, New South Wales, Australia) - (warning: they have lots of spiders, too) Website
• Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) - Website

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places to see dinosaur bones:

(and/or lifesize skeleton casts)

USA:

• Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
• Harvard Museum of Natural History/Museum of Comparative Zoology, formerly "Agassiz" (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
• Museum of Science (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
• If you're in the area, Geoclassics is a cool store in the Quincy Market near Faneuil Hall that sells geodes and small fossils.
• Dinosaur Footprints (Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA)
• American Museum of Natural History (New York City, New York, USA)
• Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts, USA)
• If you're in the area, A2ZScience is a neat store in Northampton that sells science toys and has a small selection of fossils and geodes for sale (as well as dinosaur books, plush, posters, and figurines).
• Wyoming Dinosaur Center (Thermopolis, Wyoming, USA)
• Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)