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Small, specific collections run by people who care far too much.
Jensen, UT
A cliff face inside the exhibit hall contains roughly 1,500 dinosaur bones still embedded where they were found. Visitors can see and in some places touch genuine Jurassic fossils.
Morrison, CO
A famous Front Range track-and-bone site where exposed rock preserves dinosaur footprints and Jurassic fossils along the former Alameda Parkway roadcut. Interpretive stops make the geology visible in place rather than only inside a museum.
Rocky Hill, CT
Thousands of Early Jurassic dinosaur tracks were uncovered here by accident in 1966. Hundreds remain visible beneath a retro-futuristic geodesic dome, while many more were reburied for preservation below the surrounding landscape.
Fenwick Island, DE
An unusually dense private collection of shipwreck treasure and maritime artifacts, with roughly 10,000 objects displayed at a time. Alongside coins, weapons and recovered cargo are stranger pieces that have included a Fiji-style merman and other natural-history curiosities.
Crosby, ND
Relocated historic buildings create a small pioneer village on the edge of Crosby. The collection preserves rural architecture and objects from one of North Dakota's most remote northwestern counties.
Alliance, NE
Kenneth “Dobby” Lee began collecting endangered historic buildings and artifacts to create this volunteer-run frontier village. The property includes a funeral parlor, schoolhouse, church, general store, gas station and other structures that recreate life from the frontier era into the early twentieth century. Main public access is seasonal.
Ocala, FL
Major collection preserving drag-racing history, unusual race cars, engines, and speed-culture artifacts.
Donora, PA
The museum documents the deadly 1948 Donora smog, when industrial air pollution became trapped over the Monongahela Valley and sickened thousands of residents. Photographs, newspapers and artifacts explain the disaster's role in the development of modern American air-pollution law; public hours are limited, so check before traveling.
Wildwood, NJ
This seasonal museum preserves Wildwood's exuberant 1950s and 1960s motel culture through neon signs, furniture, architecture and pop-culture artifacts. Its outdoor Neon Sign Garden contains restored signs rescued from demolished or remodeled shore motels.
Liberal, KS
Liberal built a replica of Dorothy Gale's Kansas home and an indoor Yellow Brick Road attraction around the state's connection to The Wizard of Oz. Guided visits lean heavily into handmade sets, memorabilia, and roadside-theater charm.
Waco, TX
A museum inside the historic bottling plant where Dr Pepper was first produced, filled with soda-fountain, advertising and bottling artifacts.
St. Petersburg, FL
Focused museum preserving Black history in St. Petersburg's historic Deuces neighborhood.
Battle Creek, MI
Part of Historic Adventist Village, this museum explores Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's unusual ideas about exercise, nutrition and preventive health. Displays include reproductions and examples of the mechanical exercise devices, light treatments and other inventions associated with Battle Creek's sanitarium era.
Woodruff, WI
The museum tells the story of physician Kate Pelham Newcomb and the community penny drive that helped fund a hospital in the 1950s. It adds human context to the nearby giant penny and preserves the unusual publicity campaign that put tiny Woodruff in national headlines.
Springfield, MA
The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum recreates parts of Theodor Geisel's Springfield childhood and fills galleries with characters and environments from his books. It complements the outdoor sculpture garden with a separate indoor museum experience.
Dale, IN
Dr. Ted Waflart assembled a collection of self-playing musical machines ranging from small music boxes to enormous orchestrions and dance organs. The unusual part is that many of the instruments are demonstrated rather than left silent, but access is generally arranged for pre-scheduled groups, so travelers should call before routing here.
Andersonville, GA
A small private museum in the village of Andersonville packs Civil War uniforms, weapons, photographs and relics into a more intimate collection than the nearby federal sites. It works best as a companion stop after the prison and national cemetery.
Trenton, NJ
The New Jersey State Museum displays a skeletal reconstruction of Dryptosaurus, a large predatory dinosaur first discovered in the state. The mount gives physical form to a dinosaur whose fossils helped shape early American paleontology.
Bangor, ME
The unlikely star of the Bangor Police Museum is the Duck of Justice, a taxidermied wood duck rescued from a trash bin and transformed into the department’s internet-famous mascot. The small museum is inside the police department and is currently viewed by appointment.
Dearborn, MI
Buckminster Fuller's experimental Dymaxion House was designed as a lightweight, mass-producible aluminum home suspended around a central mast. A surviving prototype has been reconstructed inside The Henry Ford, allowing visitors to walk through one of the twentieth century's strangest attempts to reinvent ordinary housing.
Oshkosh, WI
Oshkosh's aviation museum displays experimental aircraft, warbirds, early planes and one-of-a-kind flying machines. Its connection to the enormous annual EAA AirVenture gathering makes the site a pilgrimage point for unusual aircraft and homebuilt-flight culture.
Auburn, IN
This museum is devoted to Ford vehicles and history from the flathead V-8 era, especially 1932 through 1953. Its collection includes dozens of restored automobiles, period displays and a recreation of an early Ford dealership, making it a much more specific stop than a general car museum.
Hilliard, OH
The Early Television Museum preserves more than 150 television sets and related artifacts spanning mechanical television, early electronic sets, color television and broadcast history. Visitors can see restored equipment and rare experimental technology during the museum's posted weekend hours.
Yarmouth, ME
Eartha is an enormous rotating globe installed inside the former DeLorme headquarters, now associated with Garmin. The three-story sphere turns slowly inside a glass atrium and can also be seen from outside the building.
