Nineteen sculptures grace the floor of the Gulf of Mexico just off the coast of northwest Florida. The marine-life-friendly sculptures comprise the Underwater Museum of Art, which opened in 2018 as the country's first and only permanent underwater sculpture garden. In order to see the museum, you'll have to make a 57-foot scuba dive down to the gallery.

Outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, visitors are met by an illuminating art installation called “Urban Light.” Completed in 2008, artist Chris Burden’s assemblage sculpture comprises 202 restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Many of these lamps once lit the streets of Southern California.

Salvador Dalí was one of Spain’s most famous surrealist artists, but you don’t need to travel to his home country to appreciate his works — St. Petersburg, Florida, is home to the largest collection of Dalí artwork outside of Europe. An Ohio couple named Albert Reynolds and Eleanor Morse started collecting Dalí’s work in 1942, and they opened the Dalí Museum in 1982. Today, the museum displays more than 2,400 of his works.

Before the Louvre opened its doors as a museum on August 10, 1793, it was initially designed as a fortress in the 12th century. As the city around it grew, however, its purpose changed. By the mid-1500s, it served primarily as a royal residence, and rulers added to its royal art collection. In 1793, amid the French Revolution, the revolutionary government turned it into a museum.

LA's iconic hilltop Getty Museum employs an interesting strategy to keep brush and weeds at bay. Each spring, goats are brought in to clear the steep hillsides of brush, which can be a source of wildfires. The hills are too steep for humans, but the goats manage the work easily — plus they get a nice snack!

One of the world’s oldest and largest museums, the Hermitage Museum has been home to a special group of cats since at least the 1740s. The Russian Empire's Empress Elizabeth issued an official decree in 1745 for the cats to keep the building’s population of pests at bay. Today, around 70 cats are still at work protecting the museum's grounds.

The National Gallery of Victoria was founded in 1861 in Melbourne, Australia, making it the country’s oldest public art gallery. Home to more than 70,000 artworks, it is the largest and most-visited art gallery in Australia. The museum also features one of the largest stained-glass ceilings in the world, known as the Persian Rug of Light, which is made up of 224 panels and measures approximately 200 feet by 50 feet.

Recognizing the branding power of Paris’ iconic art museum, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi developed a partnership with the Louvre in hopes of making Abu Dhabi a more renowned cultural destination. Opening its doors in 2017, the Louvre Abu Dhabi features 86,000 square feet of galleries, making it the largest art museum on the Arabian Peninsula.

2018 was the first year that the Tate Modern, the renowned London art gallery, overtook the British Museum as the U.K.’s most visited attraction. The Tate drew 5.87 million visitors, compared to the British Museum’s 5.83 million. Along with three other Tate galleries across the U.K., the Tate Modern houses the national collection of British art.

As soon as you see the brilliant cobalt blue exterior of the Frida Kahlo Museum, you’ll understand why locals refer to it as “la Casa Azul” (the Blue House). The legendary Mexican painter grew up in the home and later shared it with her artist husband Diego Rivera. After Kahlo’s death in 1954, Rivera donated the home and its contents, establishing what is now one of Mexico City’s most-visited and treasured museums.

Located near Copenhagen, Denmark’s most visited art museum was established by art collector Knud W. Jensen in 1958. The name of the Louisiana Museum comes from the owner of the former estate it occupies, Alexander Burn, who had a penchant for women named Louise — he married three of them. Jensen decided to keep the name for the museum.

Daniel Wadsworth was an amateur artist and patron of the arts who was heir to a fortune from his merchant father. He opened the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1844, with a focus on American paintings, which was unusual for the time. Visitors paid just 25 cents to see 82 artworks — today, the Atheneum is home to thousands of pieces.

Opened in 1997, the striking Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, led to what’s now called the “Bilbao Effect,” referring to a city’s transformation after the construction of a noteworthy piece of architecture. The museum features a vast collection of Spanish and international artworks that draws millions of visitors each year.

Georgia O’Keeffe first gained prominence as an artist in New York City in the 1920s, but she spent much of her life in New Mexico. Her influential work earned her the nickname “Mother of American Modernism.” The museum in Santa Fe displays over 3,000 of O’Keeffe’s works, including 140 oil paintings. O’Keeffe’s two homes in New Mexico are also maintained by the museum.

Painted in June 1889, “The Starry Night” is one of the world’s most recognizable artworks. It depicts an idealized village from the window of van Gogh’s asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise. In 1941, the painting was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art — the first van Gogh to enter a New York City museum collection.

Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and seven years after his 1987 death, the Warhol Museum opened in Warhol’s hometown in 1994. The museum holds the largest collection of the legendary pop artist’s works and archival materials. It's also the largest museum in North America that is dedicated to a single artist.

Hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to the Accademia Gallery to see David, Michelangelo’s most famous work of art, each year. David was moved to the museum in 1873 to preserve the magnificent Renaissance sculpture. Before then, the statue had stood outside in the Piazza della Signoria since 1504. The section of the gallery that houses the sculpture today is known as the Tribune, featuring a bright skylight that highlights the statue.

Nicknamed “The Met”, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to more than two million pieces of art, including famous works by Picasso, Monet, Rembrandt, and van Gogh. The museum opened in 1872, with the main building located along Central Park on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The Met is famous for more than just art — it hosts the star-studded Met Gala each May.

The Prado Museum is home to the world's greatest collection of Spanish art, featuring masters like Picasso, El Greco, and Goya. The museum was built in 1785 and was originally intended to be a showcase of natural history, but King Ferdinand VII later decided to make it a museum of art. It went through several name changes, before becoming the Museo Nacional del Prado in 1868.

The Louvre is not only the largest art museum in the world but also the most popular, with 9.6 million visitors in 2019. The Louvre Palace was originally built as a fortress and opened as a museum in 1793. It is home to many masterpieces, most famously Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”