Museums

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

A land of debatable treasure.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.