Museums and Collections

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.

This small electronics museum is full of whirring, humming, clicking ephemera.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.