Museums

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.

This small electronics museum is full of whirring, humming, clicking ephemera.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

A collection cataloguing one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Packed to the ceiling with antique taxidermy and hunting arms.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Europe's only museum solely dedicated to the history of whaling still has a fully-functioning whaling ship.

The world's "leaniest" tower encourages you to test the gravity of its situation.