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This museum was built to share the story of Liberal's singular pancake-flipping racing tradition.

He’s not from around here.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

This historic factory peddles classic toys from the picturesque English county of Devon.

Museum featuring strange and enchanting toys of the past.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

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

An artisanal toy-maker’s works are highlighted in this museum dedicated to the craft of toys.

Cross the Continental Divide through an old railroad tunnel, and ride back to the top on a shuttle.

Although called a funicular by both its owner and the locals this historic railroad is actually a rack and pinion system.

Ornamented with "Bristol Diamonds," this exotic shell grotto is considered to be the finest surviving example from the eighteenth century.

This unassuimng grain elevator, commonly confused for a smokestack, helped inspire the modern architecture movement.

Largely overlooked, this little fountain on Museum Island is a whimsical tribute to a Prussian king nicknamed the “Fatty Flounder.”

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.