Museums and Collections

How did a former First Lady's tiara wind up being sold to a pawn shop on reality TV?

Open since 1977, this small museum is filled with a lifetime of finds from a tireless traveler and collector.

The van that carried William Least-Heat Moon through the journey documented in the book 'Blue Highways' sits in the Mizzou archeological museum's storage.

This Myrtle Beach art museum features a rotating display of pieces by artists from James Audubon to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s their collection of Southern works that truly impresses.

Where visitors can play more than 150 retro arcade games.

From the 1940 Ford Coupe that started it all 50 years ago, this collection of over 150 classic vehicles celebrates the spirit and history of American car craft.

A museum celebrating a couple who loved to travel the world and to bring its treasures back to Montezuma, Kansas.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

This collection of 20th-century toys is filled with a lifelong personal toy collection brought from the U.S. to Amsterdam.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

Less so a museum and more a library for hardcore Japanophiles.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

Celebrating the works of a beloved Italian actor, known for such cult films as 'They Call Me Trinity' and 'Watch Out, We’re Mad!'

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.