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Chicago, Illinois
The Insect Asylum
A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.
Valladolid, Mexico
Museo de Ropa Étnica de México (Mexican Ethnic Clothing Museum)
This small museum explores Mexican history and culture through clothing.
Askifou, Greece
War Museum Askifou
This collection of artifacts represents one family's mission to record the horrors of World War II inflicted on their hometown.
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Albacete, Spain
Caballero No. 1
This sculpture of a rider on horseback once crowned the tomb of an Iberian aristocrat.
Washington, Wisconsin
Jacobsens Museum
Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.
Cambridge, Ohio
National Museum of Cambridge Glass
A collection of thousands of pieces of unique, colorful glass made in this Ohio town.
Staten Island, New York
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.
Darjeeling, India
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
Inside this Darjeeling museum, you can see a pair of boots that once stood at the top of the world.
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Cawley & Peoples Mortuary Museum
What started as a display of antique hearses has grown into a museum exploring the history of the funeral industry.
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Gregynog Hall
A grand mansion in rural mid-Wales gifted to the Welsh people by two sisters.
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One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.
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