Museums and Collections

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

The world's largest collection of artifacts from our history of industrial gas use is hard to simply pass.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.