Museums

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

A land of debatable treasure.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.