Museums and Collections

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

This basement museum explores the art and artistry of fascism.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

This odd little home was built right into an African rock face.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.