47. National Museum of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

The National Museum of Brazil had an incredible collection that comprised of more than 1,000 objects, a mix of various relics from old civilizations that spanned Europe, Africa, the Middle-East and the Americas. It held some of the most important pieces of archaeological findings from the Americas.

All that history, all those memories of the people who came before us, our ancestors… nearly all of it was lost in 2018 when a fire broke out in the evening. It is believed that 92.5% of its entire archive was destroyed in the inferno, leaving very little behind. If you haven’t seen in… now it bears very little of this.