Museums

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."