Museums

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

The first thermometer made with the almost-universal temperature scale is backwards.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

Get a close look at the gigantic remains of long-extinct mammoths.

The modern museum honors the achievements of the state's all-star athletes.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

It's believed these prehistoric individuals were the victims of cannibalism.

The former home of queer novelist Yoshiya Nobuko memorializes her contributions to modern-day manga.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.