Museums

The city that saw the birth of Sweden is now home to an impressive collection of work from its favorite artist.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.