I recently visited the University of Florida reptile and amphibian specimen collection for the museum of natural history. It's a huge basement with the largest specimen collection in the southeast. By specimen collection, I mean jars, boxes and barrels full of dead animals soaking in toxic chemicals for the purpose of animal classification. I know the guy who runs this scientific graveyard. A show highlighting this job is great for the following reasons:
1) Dead animals by the thousands
2) Toxic chemicals that might just make Mike puke or pass out.
3) Phylogenists (people who classify organisms) are generally insane as they sit in dark, ventless basements all day playing with dead animals.
4) Viewers could learn a lot about how animals get classified while also laughing at Mike fondle the bodies of 20ft pythons, gila monsters, crocs, and amphisbeanians (kinda like giant earthworms mixed with a salamander).
These places are hidden away in the basements of many museums and universities. Although I'm not exactly an expert of "dead animal libraries", the UF one has a particularly huge collection and the man who runs it would be amazing on TV.
