Museums

One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

This theme park presents 5,000 years of Shanghai history and includes a "sunken" exhibition hall.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

This Italian museum is a one-of-a-kind celebration of printing and type.

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.

This underground museum highlights the history of Mexico City's subway system.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

This museum pays homage to a device that precipitated a watershed moment in Finger Lakes food production.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.