Waltham, Massachusetts
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.
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Waltham, Massachusetts
A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.
Los Angeles, California
The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.
Nevada City, California
"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.
Hickory Corners, Michigan
A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.
Cornish, New Hampshire
The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
Oak Park, Illinois
The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.
Gibsland, Louisiana
The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.
San Diego, California
An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.
Bradford, Pennsylvania
This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Wilmington, Delaware
This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.
Elberton, Georgia
Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.
San Antonio, Texas
This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.
Denver, Colorado
Explore some of the most unique vehicles in history along with a cast of unsettling mannequins.