Museums

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

This odd little home was built right into an African rock face.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

One man's quest to collect artifacts from every aspect of human life has resulted in this eclectic Argentinian museum.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.