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Random Place Close your eyes and spin the globe. what: near: There are 732 items filed under museums. 1 2 3 4 5 … Next › Last » Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History The former dubiously-legal detention center turned institution for cultural exchange cia, torture museums, art, museums 13 Jul 2015 East Liverpool, Ohio Sturgis House Mortuary Museum This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd death masks, crime, hotels, crime and punishment 09 Jul 2015 Formerum, Netherlands Wrakkenmuseum Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years worth of shipwreck artifacts shipwrecks, museums, museums and collections 08 Jul 2015 New Orleans, Louisiana House of Dance & Feathers An endearing museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades mardi gras, museums, museums and collections 02 Jul 2015 George Town, Malaysia Cheong Fatt Tze's Blue Mansion Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring mansions, hotels, museums 30 Jun 2015 Paris, France Jean-Paul Marat's Bathtub at Musée Grévin A magical wax museum favored by Parisian locals uses real artifacts to depict the assassination of a political martyr from the French Revolution wax museum, assassination, bathrooms, museums 25 Jun 2015 Haigerloch, Germany Atomkeller Museum The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes nuclear, castles, wwii, museums 22 Jun 2015 Rīga, Latvia The Corner House A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities kgb, secret police, secret, wwii 19 Jun 2015 Kohtla-Nõmme, Estonia Kohtla Mining Park This old Estonian mine has been kept like a sprawling time capsule of the local shale industry mines, museums, museums and collections 17 Jun 2015 Tequisquiapan, México Mexico Me Encanta! Miniature Museum A little Mexican village has its own little miniature Mexican village that celebrates the local culture miniature towns, models, miniatures, museums 11 Jun 2015 Evans City, Pennsylvania The Living Dead Museum This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead zombies, film, film locations, museums 11 Jun 2015 Wien, Austria Museum of Art Fakes This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations hoaxes, hoaxes and pseudoscience, art, museums 02 Jun 2015 Article FOUND: A Gun Linked to 7 Murders Was Sitting in a British Museum by Sarah Laskow 29 May 2015 Beijing, China China Watermelon Museum This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it food museums, food, museums, museums and collections 28 May 2015 Tehran, Iran Ebrat Museum This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police secret police, jails, prisons, museums 27 May 2015 København, Denmark Nasothek nose collection A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed noses, collections, strange statues, museums 21 May 2015 Article Revenge Zombies and Necropants: A Brief History of Icelandic Sorcery by Eric Grundhauser 13 May 2015 Torino, Italy Pietro Micca Museum This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process military, museums, museums and collections 13 May 2015 Seattle, Washington Herbert H. Warrick Jr. Museum of Communications This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment telephones, museums, museums and collections 30 Apr 2015 Calistoga, California Sharpsteen Museum A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city museums, museums and collections 24 Apr 2015 Berlin, Germany The DDR Museum This interactive museum to East German state control lets visitors listen in on tapped phones and eat anti-American hotdogs secret police, soviet, museums, museums and collections 23 Apr 2015 Amsterdam, Netherlands The Totalitarian Art Gallery This basement museum explores the art and artistry of Communism soviet, collections, museums, museums and collections 21 Apr 2015 Article The Hall of Fame Hall of Fame: 6 Weird and Wonderful Places to Honor Just About Anything by Eric Grundhauser 16 Apr 2015 Vernal, Utah First Lady Dolls at the Uintah County Library An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remember the women of the White House dolls, politics, museums 14 Apr 2015 Maputo, Mozambique Maputo Natural History Museum From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird taxidermy, animals, museums, museums and collections 13 Apr 2015 Council Bluffs, Iowa Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design jails, prisons, museums, museums and collections 09 Apr 2015 Fairfax, Virginia National Firearms Museum Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament weapons, museums, museums and collections 08 Apr 2015 Quthing, Lesotho Masitise Cave House Museum This odd little home was built right into an African rock face caves, eccentric homes, museums, museums and collections 03 Apr 2015 Eskifjorður, Iceland Randulf's Sea House This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town food museums, food, animals, museums 01 Apr 2015 Richmond, Virginia Edgar Allen Poe Museum This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick edgar allan poe, literature, museums, museums and collections 01 Apr 2015 1 2 3 4 5 … Next › Last » Like Us on Facebook X See Our Collection of Curious Facts Share: Tweet Refresh This is what we believe: 01. 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