Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia

Located in Washington DC, the Smithsonian National Museum is the most visited natural history museum in the world, attracting more than 7 million visitors annually. Covering an area of 123,000 square meters, it boasts more than 126 million specimens, including plants, dinosaur fossils, minerals and tools used by early man. The museum tour is truly an adventure, offering you an amazing science safari through such amazing galleries as the Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals, which boasts one of the largest sapphires in the world and the Hall of Paleobiology, which houses more than 570,000 catalogued reptiles.