But when the crush of the crowd, or the heat of the sun gets to her, she heads straight up the hill to Monaco-Ville's Musée Océanographique. Near the Cathedral and Palace, the museum, with its world-renowned shark tank, was built by Prince Albert I and completed in 1910.

While there are plenty of skeletons of whales and other sea creatures upstairs, and even a few very cool machines that preceded the tiny submersibles that scientists today use to study the ocean floor, what Girlawhirl loves most about the museum is the basement level where the aquarium is.

It's all situated around the shark tank, which is really a multi-story tank where many kinds of fish, including a shark or two, live. Open on all sides from top to bottom, Girlawhirl loves sitting and just watching as the small brightly colored fish flitter around the bigger, more lumbering varieties. On both sides of the tank are wings of the building where lots of smaller tanks display 4000 species of fish and 200 families of invertebrates.

When she's through touring the underwater world of the lower level, she always heads to the top of the building, which is built on a cliff. There she can grab a cool drink or ice cream and sit for a while on the large roof deck taking in the unbelievably beautiful view.

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