Museums

Home to a collection of artifacts and specimens from one of the world's preeminent geologists

A six-story, asymmetrical tower filled to the brim with scientific experiments.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

The warmth and creative kitsch of a quilt engulf every patron who visits.

An early 20th-century jail not far from the infamous Tombstone, Arizona.

The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.

A museum run by retired highway engineers who helped rebuild after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

A former church that has been chronicling the Scottish island of Islay's rich history since the 70s.

This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.

It’s all about the Benjamins at this Atlanta museum with interactive exhibits.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

The Conduit Road Schoolhouse is one of the last one-room schoolhouses remaining in Washington, D.C.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.