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Museums

Old Havana Perfume Museum

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

One of the "fancy craft" Victorian hair wreaths in the collection of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Photo by Noel Black.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.

Swan Hill, Australia

Pioneer Settlement

Australia's first open air museum and antique 3D theater.

Winnemucca, Nevada

Humboldt Museum

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Pavek Museum

Explore the History & Technology of Electronic Communication

Proof that birds migrate over Africa.

Rostock, Germany

Zoological Collection of the University of Rostock

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

National Museum of Health and Medicine

Silver Spring, Maryland

National Museum of Health and Medicine

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Columbus, Georgia

Lunch Box Museum

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Permanently Closed

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Stichting Nationaal Brilmuseum

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

Roswell, New Mexico

International UFO Museum and Research Center

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Blaschka Glass Flowers

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Baraboo, Wisconsin

Circus World Museum

A large circus museum with summer performances.

Budapest, Hungary

The Golden Eagle Pharmacy Museum

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Permanently Closed

Les Escaldes, Andorra

The Andorran Model Museum

A museum of tiny buildings in the tiny country of Andorra.

Don't let the unassuming entrance fool you.

Culver City, California

The Museum of Jurassic Technology

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Independence, Missouri

Leila's Hair Museum

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Permanently Closed

Lincoln, Nebraska

Johnson Museum of the Odd

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

Hutchings Museum Institute

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.