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The largest museum dedicated to Italian Americans on the East Coast is located in a 100-year-old church.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

Artifacts from the golden days of the circus reside in a small Indiana town.

A multi-story, retro videogame time capsule in the Netherlands.

Home to over 1,000 street signs, this museum offers visitors an opportunity to travel over 70 years back in time.

Alberta's Pipestone Creek Bonebed is one of the densest fossil sites in the world. This nearby museum showcases some of the best finds from its "river of death."

Eat green onion ice cream and other allium-centric treats at this unusual museum.

This interactive museum preserves the big aviation history of this small Missouri town

Explore the history and craftsmanship of a century of motorcycles at this St. Louis showroom.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.

Haunted dolls, macabre artifacts, and more make up the collection of the “most haunted museum in the world.”

Two Indiana icons are honored at this tiny museum, which features the world's largest collection of James Dean memorabilia.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

From motorcycles to firetrucks and sports cars to horse-drawn carriages, this Belgian collection goes beyond rare cars.

Explore a wealth of fossils in one of the most prolific dig sites in North America.

An antiquated aquarium housed in a converted government anti-nuclear bunker.

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.

A museum dedicated to celebrating the humble wingnut.

A museum of Czech puppetry and wine in an allegedly haunted 14th-century stone house.

Explore the world's largest collection of locks, keys, handcuffs, and ornate hardware, and crack the code on an antique-filled escape room.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

There's something in the air as history repeats itself at this museum dedicated to the Swedish pop band.