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Museums

Bamberg, Germany

The Gardener and Vintner Museum

A local museum honors the history of Bamberg’s unique cultural heritage: growing crops in the heart of the city.

Building of Isolatormuseum Lohr am Main

Lohr am Main, Germany

Isolatorenmuseum (Museum of Insulators)

A unique collection of electric insulators on display in a former transformer station.

Peter the dog.

Brisbane, Australia

Queensland Police Museum

It's home to the taxidermy remains of Peter, the dog who helped convict a murderer.

A bust of Lenin made from sugar.

Lenin Museum

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

Rear of the building.

Mexico City, Mexico

Museo Universitario del Chopo (Chopo University Museum)

This industrial Art Nouveau gem is a historic hotspot for Mexican counterculture.

A sketch of the Phrenological Cabinet from a February 1860 edition of the <em>New York Illustrated News</em>.

How Profit and Prejudice Built a Family's Human Skull Collection

Fowler & Wells created a "Phrenological Cabinet" on the racist belief that skulls held secrets about human nature.

Peter Leman October 2, 2019

Steam engines.

Meridian, Mississippi

Soulé Steam Feed Works

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

Firefighters Museum of Alcoy

The first firefighters museum in southern Spain is ironically located in an old textile mill that burned down in 1985.

Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

Northumberland, England

Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

The first museum in the United Kingdom dedicated to this woodwind instrument.

Sugihara House.

Kaunas, Lithuania

Sugihara House

Where a Japanese government official issued transit visas to Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland.

Bullet fragments on display.

Mexico City, Mexico

Museo Casa de Carranza

The former Mexican president kept the bullets that killed his predecessor on display in his home, now a museum.

One hall of the museum.

Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

Templo de Santa Rosa de Viterbo

This baroque wonder is filled with a trove of artistic treasures.

Leonard's Museum.

Fort Worth, Texas

Leonard's Museum

This small museum tells the story of Fort Worth's first and largest superstore.

Asiago Astrophysical Observatory.

Asiago Astrophysical Observatory

The 1940s structure houses what was once Europe's largest telescope.

Main dining room.

Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

Zacatecana House Museum

This eerily opulent residential museum is home to a haunting local legend.

Old photos, traditional clothes displayed at the museum.

Kolkja, Estonia

Old Believers Museum

Its collection offers a glimpse into the Russian Old Believers' centuries-old way of life.

Dublin, Ireland

The Irish Elk Collection

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

Qilakitsoq mummies at the Greenland National Museum.

Nuuk, Greenland

Qilakitsoq Mummies

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.