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Bradford, Pennsylvania
Zippo/Case Museum
This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.
Herne Bay, England
Herne Bay Museum
Beachcombers have been populating this museum with artifacts ranging from prehistoric to barely historic since the 1930's.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Bradbury Science Museum
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
New York, New York
Museum of Chinese in America
This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Museum of Hygiene
This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.
Bristol, Rhode Island
Musée Patamécanique
The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.
Windsor, Vermont
American Precision Museum
This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Salt & Pepper Shaker Museum
Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.
Trois-Rivières, Québec
Old Prison of Trois-Rivières
This historic Canadian jail was once the longest operating prison in the country and is now open for people to incarcerate themselves.
Amsterdam, New York
The Wildlife Sports and Educational Museum
This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.
Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site
This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.
Ellsworth, Maine
Telephone Museum
As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.
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Stasi Surveillance in the Shadows of the World's Largest Goth Festival
Rouen, France
Musee Flaubert et d'Histoire de la Medecine
Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.
Williamsburg, Michigan
Spirit of the Woods Museum
Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Russian Vodka Museum
The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.
Apache Junction, Arizona
The Superstition Mountain Museum
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
Stonington, Connecticut
Mystic Seaport Museum
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
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