Museums

This abandoned prison is now a museum chronicling the oppression of political prisoners in the not-so-distant past.

This interactive museum is dedicated to the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and founder of one of the nation’s earliest boomtowns.

A house that transports visitors back to Yugoslavia.

Under the streets of La Rochelle, a former wartime bunker holds some surprising secrets.

Once the home of a noted Civil War spy, the two-story brick house now serves as a museum.

A once-shattered school now preserves a visible fault line, showcasing Taiwan's traumatic 1999 earthquake.

One of the oldest universities in the world exhibits thousands of specimens from its 700-year-old collection.

An unassuming museum offers a deep dive into everything about mushrooms, from cultivation innovations to fungi that "talk."

Drift through decades of high desert music history at this funky hometown museum.

An unexpected public exhibit showcases the diversity of Dutch street posts.

In a Pune bungalow, a quirky museum showcases over 150 vintage bicycles.

This hands-on museum houses roughly 80 vintage pinball machines and arcade games.

The world's first kindergarten.

The site of the first daylight, peacetime bank robbery by the James gang.

At this privately owned collection, conflicts are humanized through soldiers’ personal belongings.

A 10,000-square-foot museum of operating model trains.

Here you can learn about an insect that was called "cactus blood," which trade turned immensely valuable as "red gold".

A treasure trove of artifacts dating back to the late 19th century in Alabama.