Museums and Collections

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

This 880-acre facility is home to a massive collection of vintage motorcycles and cars, as well as a 2.38-mile race course.

Not your average art gallery, this massive center hosts 8,000 works from artists across Africa—and it’s free to the public.

Learn about the history of Shreveport in one of the city’s oldest surviving buildings.

The hometown of movie legend, military officer and All-American guy next door, honors this great actor.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

This medieval castle is filled with an eccentric collection that ranges from ancient Egyptian artifacts to taxidermy to a mummified hand that was cut off during a duel.