EVOTOURISM: Because It's Time for Travel to Evolve


Welcome to Evotourism®, Smithsonian’s travel-information service that will help you find and fully enjoy the wonders of evolution. Whether it’s a city museum or suburban fossil trove, a historic scientific site overseas or a rare creature in your own backyard, we’ll direct you to places and discoveries that figure in the science of evolution or offer eye-opening evidence of the process of natural selection. Evotourism will present original articles by scientists and accomplished journalists offering expert background and practical advice. We’ll tell you where to go and when, and what to do when you get there. Videos and photographs will help make the findings clear. Our curated Evotourism forum will give scientists and other travelers an unprecedented meeting place for exchanging insights and tips.

We launch our Evotourism initiative here by focusing on 12 world-class destinations that span six continents and 500 million years.

Evotourism®. Because if life is a journey, then the ultimate is the journey of life on earth.


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Dinosaur National Monument, Utah
A Jurassic Graveyard

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Darwin's House, Outside London
The Naturalist's Home For 40 Years

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Komodo Island, Indonesia
Where Dragons Live

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Kangaroo Island, Australia
Where the Wild Things Are

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Foraminifera Sculpture Park, China
330-Million-Year-Old Organisms

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Isle Royale, Michigan
A Fight for Survival

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Wadi Hitan, Egypt
Whales Walked Here

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The Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Human Evolution History

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Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
Where Darwin Found Natural Selection

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Mount St. Helens, Washington
Life Begins Anew

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Jurassic Coast, England
A Fossil Treasure Trove

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Mendel’s Garden, Czech Republic
Where Modern Genetics Was Born

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Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska
The Prehistoric Pompeii

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La Brea Tar Pits, California
Giant Beasts, Preserved Forever

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Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada
A Paleontologist’s Heaven

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Galápagos Islands »
Kangaroo Island »
Mount St. Helens »
Burgess Shale »
Jurassic Coast »
Isle Royale »
Best Evotourism Sites For Seeing Fossils
Jurassic Coast »
Burgess Shale »
Valley of the Whales »
La Brea Tar Pits »
Cradle of Humankind »
Ashfall Fossil Beds »
Best Evotourism Sites For History Buffs
Jurassic Coast »
Burgess Shale »
Galápagos Islands »
Mendel's Garden »
Best Evotourism Sites For Families
La Brea Tar Pits »
Ashfall Fossil Beds»
Mount St. Helens»
Jurassic Coast »
Best Evotourism Sites For the Adventurous Traveler
Valley of the Whales»
Burgess Shale »
Jurassic Coast »
Isle Royale »
Best Evotourism Sites For the Urban Traveler
La Brea Tar Pits»
Foraminifera Sculpture Park»
Mendel's Garden»

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