Greensboro, North Carolina
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Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.
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Greensboro, North Carolina
Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.
Mecca, California
World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.
Miami Beach, Florida
12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Supply, North Carolina
Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Gardners, Pennsylvania
A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.
Blackfoot, Idaho
This museum glorifies the humble potato.
Le Roy, New York
The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.
Boston, Massachusetts
Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.
Long Beach, Washington
Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.
Lemmon, South Dakota
An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.
Cleveland, Georgia
A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.
Mansfield, Ohio
The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.
Cincinnati, Ohio
This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.
Lehi, Utah
Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Laconia, New Hampshire
The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.
Williamsburg, Michigan
Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.
Apache Junction, Arizona
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
New York, New York
A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.