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Leicester, England

Abbey Sewage Pumping Station

This former sewage pumping station is now a fascinating museum.

Main Entrance

Hastings, England

Shipwreck Museum

From battleships to Roman vessels, this museum explores the depths of shipwrecks in the region.

Ulverston, England

The Laurel and Hardy Museum

This museum dedicated to the famous comedy duo is located in the town where Stan Laurel was born.

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans houses uniforms, equipment, and more than two dozen signed and captured Nazi flags.

What Should You Do With a Captured Nazi Flag?

During WWII, American soldiers brought the flags home as a remembrance. Now, family members and historians must decide what should become of them.

Reina Gattuso July 19, 2021

Barbara Moore working on Ngayuku Ngura mural.

Charlottesville, Virginia

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

Every tour begins in the basement, featuring a bar decorated in Russian vodka labels.

Staten Island, New York

Booze History Museum

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Peenemünde, Germany

Maritime Museum Peenemünde U-461

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.

A display of milkfish suspended above the ceiling.

Tainan City, Taiwan

Saba Milkfish Museum

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

El Hierro, Spain

Ecomuseo de Guinea (Ethnographic Museum of Guinea)

An open-air museum showing how people on El Hierro lived from the time of the first settlers until the late 20th century.

Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Múzeum Slovenského Národného Povstania (Museum of the Slovak National Uprising)

A monument to the bloody fight against fascism in Slovakia during World War II.

O'Fallon Historical Museum

This six-building complex is the home of the world's largest steer.

Interior of the house

Maison de Victor Hugo

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

The fresco after restoration

'Trionfo della Morte'

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

Weaving silk on a loom

Maison des Canuts (Silk Workers' Center)

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

A small part of the dice collection at the Office of Collecting and Design

Las Vegas, Nevada

Office of Collecting and Design

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Little Hollywood Land Museum

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

Podcast: Museum of Broken Relationships

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team July 1, 2021

A granite sarcophagus believed to be that of Ramesses I, on display in Cairo.

The Thorny Ethics of Displaying Egyptian Mummies to the Public

Mummy exhibits are big draws for museums, but curators are grappling with issues of cultural and racial sensitivity.

Doug Struck June 28, 2021