Museums

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This impressive collection of skulls and bones was gathered by an ex-zookeeper who took advantage of a pig plague.

"You can only scalp a customer once, but you can give him a haircut every two weeks"-Barber's Maxim.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

This small museum is dedicated to making sure the history of the natural ice industry doesn't melt away.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.

Experience the life of an 1800's lumberjack at this interactive museum that is only accessible by railroad.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

This indiscriminate collection of audio antiques is trying to preserve the history of the audio industry one vintage appliance at a time.