Museums

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

A museum and memorial built amid the rubble of a town obliterated by nature.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Home of the "true" equator.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.