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Tabriz, Iran
Sound & Music Museum
Forty years of collecting led to Iran's first sound museum, where fruit-core instruments share space with oil-powered radios.
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A night at the museum? We'd need YEARS of exploration to get through all of these lovely homes of art, antiquity and ingenuity.
Tynemouth, United Kingdom
Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigrade Museum
The world's first volunteer coastal rescue squad was born from tragedy and still answers emergency calls today.
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Ljubljana, Slovenia
Slovenian School Museum
Slovenia's oldest specialist museum once lived in a bar and a castle before finding its permanent home in 1938.
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Nancy, France
Musée de l’École de Nancy
Nancy's Art Nouveau movement was born from displacement—refugees fleeing German annexation created 'art for all.'
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Skopje, North Macedonia
Matka Exhibition Center
Handle 80-year-old dials in a control room frozen in time when the new plant opened next door.
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Lugano, Switzerland
Swiss Customs Museum
A museum with no roads and a submarine built to smuggle salami across Lake Lugano—one succeeded, the other never left shore.
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Taipei City, Taiwan
National Palace Museum
Taipei’s National Palace Museum, once exiled from Beijing, holds 700,000 imperial treasures including the famed Jadeite Cabbage and Meat-shaped Stone!
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Waco, Texas, United States
Dr Pepper Museum
The oldest major soft drink in the US of A.
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Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
Granja Arenas
The world's largest pencil collection: 24.000 pencils - and more!
Glover, Vermont, United States
Museum of Everyday Life
With exhibits focused on the beauty in the ordinary, this quirky museum invites visitors to reconsider the familiar through a fresh lens.
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Basel, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel
Easel-y one of the most precious gems of the city’s art space.
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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Office of Collecting and Design
Collecting everything but dust.
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Ketchum, Idaho, United States
Heritage & Ski Museum
Originally built as a ranger station, these old wooden warehouses are now home to Sun Valley Idaho's heart and soul
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Mystic, Connecticut, United States
Mystic Seaport Museum
It has wooden whaling boats. And pepperoni pizza.
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Mystic, Connecticut, United States
Charles W. Morgan Ship
The Charles W. Morgan is a whaling ship who is the last standing — or should we say floating? — of a whaling fleet of 2,700 ships.
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London, United Kingdom
Kenwood House
This former stately home, in Hampstead, London has been owned by a series of Earls and a member of the Guinness family, is now open to the public.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Dollhouses were not always just for kids!
Dorset, United Kingdom
Corfe Castle Station
This lovingly restored railway station is now home to the Swanage Railway Museum.
Marietta, Ohio, United States
Ohio River Museum
Look out below! This little pilot house was saved from a potential drowning...
London, United Kingdom
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Sir John Soane was attempting to collect everything during his lifetime - paintings, sculptures, even sarcophagi. By the end of his life, Parliament had no other choice but to turn his collection into a museum.
Vienna, Austria
Albertina Museum
Museum housing the most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints.
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Salzburg, Austria
Schloss Hellbrunn
This Austrian palace is celebrated for its fountains and water tricks.
Krasnodar, Russia
The Krasnodar State Historic and Archaeological Museum-Reserve of Felitsyn E.D.
This Museum goes on underwater archeological expeditions to gather artifacts for its exhibits.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States
Woolaroc Museum
Oilman, "Uncle" Frank Phillips, needed a place to store his transpacific race-winning plane, Woolaroc, birthing what would become "the most unique place" in America, the Woolaroc Museum, home to an impressive display of Western and Native crafts as well as a sprawling wildlife reserve.
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Shelburne, Vermont, United States
Shelburne Museum
Since 1947, this off-centered museum has been putting the "ordinary" in "extraordinary" with its unusual collection.
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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Anatomical Museum
A new meaning behind a body being "snatched."
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Washington, D.C., United States
Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum
Located next to Union Station in the capital of the United States, this museum is dedicated to all “philatists”, or as some might know them, the studiers of stamps.
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
Pinacoteca Station
In 2008, several paintings from this museum went on an adventure.
Wiscasset, Maine, United States
Castle Tucker
A complete Victorian home, preserved on accident.
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Lewes, Delaware, United States
Lewes Historical Society
Some houses have bricks, others have stones... this house has a cannonball.
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Paris, France
Petit Palais
As you stroll through the museum, imagine being among the first to see it, one of fifty million visitors who came to Paris in 1900, eager for their chance to see a whole new world.