Museums and Collections

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

A museum showcasing the history of sugarcane with a rich history.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.