Maybe you can't leave town this weekend on vacation, but you can take an awesome behind-the-scenes video tour of UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, which is closed to the public, courtesy of Wired Science:
Officious handwritten tags tell the story of each and every animal's capture. In a screwtop container on the tray, a half-dozen chipmunk skulls rattle, picked clean of all their tissue by a beetle colony housed downstairs. . . You'll visit the bone room and the fur room, where the big mammals are kept. You'll see capybara furs, komodo dragon skins, and whale skulls.
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Thanks for that. Years ago I knew one of the people involved with moving the collection to temporary quarters while its home was being renovated and the stories they told of the collection provoked a kind of intense curriousity and envy that this little video tour goes some distance in satisfying. Perhaps one day...
Heh. And here we thought WE were the only Bone Room in Berkeley....