Museums

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Where the oil industry began.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.

A small town museum celebrates the history of the Ohio county that produced Annie Oakley and other famous figures.

The legacy of baseball great Roberto Clemente is preserved in a retired Pittsburgh fire station.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.