BRITAIN: THE BRITISH MUSEUM . Holding world artifacts like Egypt’s Rosetta Stone or Iran’s Oxus Treasure, the British Museum contains almost nothing British.

  DENMARK: LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART . This well-rounded museum’s name honors the three wives of the estate’s original owner—all of them were named Louisa.

  BRITAIN: TATE MODERN . Organized thematically, this former power station turned modern art powerhouse is as much a masterpiece as any of the works in its galleries.

  GERMANY: SCHOKOLADENMUSEUM . This chocolate museum, detailing the chocolate-making process, has gold fountains that spurt out samples and can be described only as magical.

  FRANCE: THE LOUVRE . Six million visitors come each year to see 35,000 works of art, including Da Vinci’s surprisingly small painting of art’s most famous face, the Mona Lisa.

  HUNGARY: SZAMOS MARZIPAN MUSEUM . Only one statuette on display at this museum is not composed of marzipan: an 80kg white chocolate effigy of Michael Jackson.

  GERMANY: GEMÄLDEGALERIE . With over 1000 works from 1200 to 1800 by the likes of Bruegel and Raphael, it’s no wonder this is one of the most visited museums in Germany.

  ICELAND: PHALLOLOGICAL MUSEUM . With specimens from over 90 species, this museum—a mix of science and humor—is all about penises. We’ll leave the puns up to you.

  GREECE: NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM . Athens itself may be museum enough for some, but this building collects artifacts of smaller dimensions.

  ITALY: PALERMO CATACOMBS . The withered faces and mostly empty eye sockets of 8000 posing corpses gaze enviously at living spectators in Europe’s creepiest underground tomb.

  ITALY: VATICAN MUSEUMS . Look for the School of Athens here; the painting tops off a mindblowing amount of Renaissance and other art, including the incredible Raphael Rooms.

  THE NETHERLANDS: CANNABIS COLLEGE . Cannabis College is just like college, except there are no libraries, no lectures, no studying, no liquor, no dorms, and no full-time students.

  THE NETHERLANDS: RIJKSMUSEUM . Renovations shouldn’t deter visitors who come to see the pinnacles of the Dutch Golden Age, including Rembrandts and Vermeers, that line the walls.

  NORWAY: VIGELANDPARKEN . Not quite a museum, but with enough art to be one, this park contains over 200 of Gustav Vigeland’s controversial sculptures. Each depicts a stage of human life.

  POLAND: NATIONAL MUSEUM . In the vaults of a former Franciscan monastery, Gdank’s National Museum has a large collection of 16th- to 20th-century art and furniture.

  PORTUGAL: OCEANÁRIO . Europe’s largest oceanarium, with interactive exhibits exploring the four major oceans, allows visitors to get within a meter of sea otters and penguins.

  SLOVAKIA: PRIMACÁLN PALÁC . This-pink- and-gold “Primate’s Palace” was built in the 1700s for Hungarian religious leaders (not monkeys) and is now home to Bratislava’s mayor.

  SPAIN: TEATRE-MUSEU DALÍ . Dalí’s final resting place has works like Napoleon’s Nose Transformed into a Pregnant Woman Strolling Her Shadow with Melancholic amongst Original Ruins.

  SPAIN: MUSEO DEL PRADO . It’s an art-lover’s heaven to see hell, as painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Velázquez’s famous 10 by 9 ft. painting Las Meninas is as luminous as it is tall.

  SWITZERLAND: VERKEHRSHAUS DER SCHWEIZ . The Swiss Transport Museum, with an IMAX theater and a wide array of cool contraptions, isn’t nearly as dorky as its name implies.