This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.