Museums

This small and unknown museum recounts the life of Mirabai, a remarkable mystic saint of the 16th century.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

This museum in a shuttered train station remembers the island's forgotten rail system.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

A former prison complex now displays a historic collection of inmate artwork.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Brazil's only museum dedicated to the art and evolution of tattoos.

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.