Museums and Collections

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.

The legacy of baseball great Roberto Clemente is preserved in a retired Pittsburgh fire station.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.