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Staten Island, New York
National Lighthouse Museum
This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Swellendam, South Africa
Drostdy Museum
A museum complex showing 17th-century life in Swellendam.
Elizabeth, Illinois
Paul’s Vintage Bicycle Museum
Collection of over 1,000 rare and vintage bicycles.
Bochum, Germany
German Mining Museum
The world’s largest museum dedicated to mining, complete with an underground show cave.
Memphis, Tennessee
The Beale Street Hoodoo History and Folklife Museum
The only museum in North America dedicated to Memphis hoodoo history.
Berlin, Germany
Boros Collection
Art and concrete merge into a single entity within a WWII bunker that possesses a deeply storied and turbulent history.
Huntington, West Virginia
Museum of Radio & Technology
Step into a converted schoolhouse packed with radios, ham gear, and a century of broadcasting history.
Mathews, Virginia
Mathews Museum
A walk-through general store display reveals how community once functioned in rural coastal America.
Nagoa Ash Shatb, Egypt
Crocodile Museum
The museum within the Kom-Ombo Temple complex houses mummified crocodiles and mummified crocodile eggs.
Brussels, Belgium
Musée du Coeur
This section of the Art and History Museum's collections at the Cinquantenaire explores the symbolism of the heart in Western society.
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Waalwijk, Netherlands
Schoenenkwartier
A place where shoes are not displayed as fashion, but dissected as objects of craft, industry and cultural identity.
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah Pirates and Treasure Museum
High seas history comes to life at this immersive museum with an on-site tavern.
Wailuku, Hawaii
Bailey House
Originally a mission, what may be the oldest building on Maui is now a museum of the island’s history.
Chicago, Illinois
McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum
The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The Bonnet House Museum and Gardens
This oceanfront 1920s house museum offers visitors historic art and rare plants across five distinct ecosystems.
Nagasaki, Japan
Siebold Memorial Museum
A memorial to the man who brought Western medicine to Japan.
New York, New York
The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation
The studio and home of one of America’s preeminent mid-century sculptors.
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