A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A museum and research center dedicated to preserving the history of Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

The collection includes seven one-of-a-kind automobiles, vintage fashion, and more.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

A museum that houses a collection of stenography machines plus dozens of books, photographs, and guides to shorthand languages from around the world.

A converted hangar displays dozens of helicopters, from a famous 1943 rescue chopper to several autogyros.