Museums

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Created by a pair of artists, this former hotel was designed to provide a minimum of everything including comfort.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.