Museums and Collections

This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.