Museums and Collections

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.