A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

The largest collection of the iconic wooden shoe in the world.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

This museum tells the history of Day of the Dead sugar sculptures.

A museum dedicated to Norwegian music, old and new alike.

A small hippo-shaped fountain in Berlin, Germany.

This 880-acre facility is home to a massive collection of vintage motorcycles and cars, as well as a 2.38-mile race course.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

This beautiful 14th-century castle perched on a promontory overlooks the Bay of Trieste.

This uniquely shaped rock formation is one of Scotland's most iconic mountains and gives spectacular views in all directions.

The seat of the lost Ryukyu Kingdom has survived numerous fires and wars over the centuries.

This former farm In northern Iceland is now a museum, where visitors can tour beautifully-preserved turf houses.

A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.