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Bangkok, Thailand
Counterfeit Goods Museum
A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.
Grantham, England
Woolsthorpe Manor
Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
The Edward Gorey House
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Maria Mitchell Association
Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.
Permanently Closed
Dunedin, New Zealand
Lanyop Gallery
Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mummers Museum
A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.
London, England
The Museum of Everything (Moving Location)
London's largest outsider art museum.
Belgrade, Serbia
Ružica Church
A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.
Donora, Pennsylvania
Donora Smog Museum and Historical Society
A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.
Bologna, Italy
Bologna Zoological Museum
This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.
Permanently Closed
Springfield, Illinois
Museum of Funeral Customs
The history of funerals and funerary customs.
Permanently Closed
Suzhou, China
Professor Dalin's Museum of Sex
9,000 years of carnal history is on display at China's original Museum of Sex.
Vienna, Austria
Esperanto Museum
Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.
New York, New York
The Lightship Frying Pan
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
Gori, Georgia
Stalin Museum
A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Science History Institute
Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.
Los Angeles, California
Nethercutt Collection and Museum
Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.
Surfers Paradise, Australia
Gold Coast Wax Museum and Chamber of Horrors
The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.
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