Museums and Collections

This small-town museum is dedicated to the original western movie mega-star.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

The oldest library in Scotland was built from the remains of a church to hold a churchman's library.

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

This small museum collects the Christian remembrances which would otherwise be forgotten.

A youth-centric science center hides an industrial triumph.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

The little house that stood up to a disastrous flood has become a symbol of perseverance.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.