Boulder City, Nevada
Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum
A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.
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Plainville, Connecticut
Witch’s Dungeon
A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Wax Museum
An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.
Surfers Paradise, Australia
Gold Coast Wax Museum and Chamber of Horrors
The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.
St. Augustine, Florida
Potter's Wax Museum
America's first wax museum opened in 1948.
Paris, France
The Wax and Bone Relics of Saint Vincent de Paul
Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.
Baltimore, Maryland
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.
Athens, Greece
Wax Museum of Andreas Syggros
A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.
Permanently Closed
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Conti Wax Museum
An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum
This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.
Brooklyn, New York
House of Wax
Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.
Fort Worth, Texas
Cowgirl Hall of Fame
A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Burlesque Hall of Fame
This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.
Permanently Closed
Jackson, Tennessee
International Rock-A-Billy Hall of Fame
An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Pinball Hall of Fame
This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.
Waco, Texas
Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.
Bronx, New York
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.
Bronx, New York
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
The famous author's cottage hideaway.
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome
A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”
Bronx, New York
Bronx Zoo Bug Carousel
The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.
Queens, New York
Fort Totten
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
Bronx, New York
Hart Island
The loneliest island in New York.
Bronx, New York
Rat Island
Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.
Queens, New York
TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
