Collections

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

The clients of these mysterious hand-crafted funeral cars took their last ride in style.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.