Museo del Mar/Museum of the Sea - La Barra, Uruguay

Located on the outskirts of La Barra (which is north of Punta del Este) Museo del Mar contains the most amazing array of dead marine creatures I’ve ever seen (it beats the collections of the Natural History Museums in NYC and DC, as well as anything contained within the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California). This museum was mind-blowing. I would love to camp inside for a month.