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Bozeman, MT
A compact museum tracing thousands of years of information technology, from writing and mechanical calculation to early computers, robotics, and space-era hardware.
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Atlanta, IL
A museum dedicated to Muffler Men and other giant fiberglass advertising figures explains the history of these classic roadside colossi.
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- Museums35.0966° N, 106.6697° W
Albuquerque, NM
Live rattlesnakes and snake-related artifacts fill this compact Old Town museum, which focuses almost entirely on one famously feared group of reptiles. The narrow specialty makes it one of Albuquerque's strongest OddWay museum fits.
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- Museums43.1680° N, 73.0671° W
Manchester, VT
This specialized museum preserves rods, reels, flies, art and archival material documenting the history of angling. Its intense focus on a single outdoor pastime makes it a strong niche museum stop rather than a general regional-history museum.
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- Museums42.2723° N, 84.9583° W
Marshall, MI
Founded in 1978, this downtown museum preserves an enormous collection of stage-magic history, including posters, props, costumes, illusions and material connected with famous performers. It is one of the strongest OddWay museum stops in southern Michigan because the collection focuses on the mechanics, showmanship and history of supposedly impossible acts.
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Sylva, NC
An entire museum is devoted to the domestic cat, with thousands of cat-related objects ranging from antique art and advertising to toys, carvings, clocks, and historic memorabilia. It is one of the most narrowly themed museums in the state.
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- Museums41.9228° N, 73.0754° W
Winsted, CT
Founded by Ralph Nader, this museum is devoted to civil wrongs, product-liability cases and the lawsuits that changed American consumer safety. Exhibits turn famous cases involving automobiles, dangerous products and corporate negligence into an unexpectedly strange museum subject.
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- Museums35.5363° N, 97.4714° W
Oklahoma City, OK
A museum devoted to pigeons documents racing, military messenger birds, fancy breeds and the long relationship between humans and domesticated pigeons. It is one of the state's most narrowly focused specialty museums.
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- Museums43.4748° N, 72.3894° W
Windsor, VT
Inside a nineteenth-century armory, this museum preserves early machine tools and manufacturing technology tied to interchangeable parts and precision production. The dense collection of unusual industrial machinery makes it one of Vermont's strongest mechanical-history stops.
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- Museums32.0807° N, 81.0920° W
Savannah, GA
A museum devoted to America's Prohibition era uses recreated speakeasies, figures, artifacts and displays about bootlegging, temperance and organized crime. The subject matter and theatrical staging make it one of Savannah's more unusual indoor history stops.
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- Museums35.1946° N, 101.8058° W
Amarillo, TX
A museum dedicated to the American Quarter Horse, including breed history, legendary horses and riders, trophies and western material culture.
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Cincinnati, OH
The American Sign Museum preserves more than a century of American commercial signage, from hand-painted storefronts and roadside signs to enormous glowing neon displays. Visitors can walk through recreated streetscapes and see neon craftsmanship during regular museum hours.
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Titusville, FL
Spaceflight artifacts and monuments dedicated to workers behind America's launch program.
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Evanston, IL
Thousands of figural ceramic jugs fill a museum devoted almost entirely to Toby and character jugs, from historic examples to modern pop culture.
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Upper Providence Township, PA
The American Treasure Tour fills a huge former industrial building with automatic music machines, classic automobiles, animated store displays, advertisements and other pieces of American popular culture. Much of the collection is seen from a guided tram ride through rows of densely packed artifacts.
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- Museums39.2804° N, 76.6069° W
Baltimore, MD
Rather than concentrating on conventionally trained artists, this Baltimore museum is devoted to self-taught and visionary creators. The campus is packed with giant sculptures, mosaics, kinetic pieces and objects made from unexpected materials, making the exterior alone an OddWay-worthy stop.
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Lubbock, TX
A large museum displaying hundreds of historic windmills, wind-energy machines and related ranching technology.
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Mount Clemens, MI
This small museum focuses directly on death, medicine, mourning and mortuary history rather than conventional local history. Displays include embalming and funeral equipment, anatomical material and other macabre artifacts, making it one of Michigan's strongest indoor OddWay stops.
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- Museums61.2161° N, 149.8845° W
Anchorage, AK
Alaska's largest museum combines art, history, science and Smithsonian Arctic Studies collections under one roof. Its Native objects, northern technology and Alaska-specific exhibits make it a useful high-density OddWay stop rather than a generic art museum.
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- Museums39.2946° N, 80.0445° W
Webster, WV
Anna Jarvis, the woman who successfully campaigned for the creation of Mother's Day, was born at this house in Webster in 1864. The restored home now interprets Jarvis's life as well as its Civil War connection to Union General George B. McClellan, but it is a small attraction with a limited operating season.
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Anniston, AL
Dioramas, fossils, minerals, mounted animals and archaeological objects fill a museum built around wide-ranging natural-history collections. The specimen-heavy galleries retain the feel of an older encyclopedic museum.
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Westerville, OH
Westerville was national headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League, one of the organizations most responsible for pushing the United States toward Prohibition. The Westerville History Museum occupies part of the League's former headquarters and preserves its propaganda, publications and archives; walk-in visitors can view current exhibits during library museum hours.
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Vista, CA
Acres of working tractors, steam engines, blacksmith equipment and industrial machinery preserve technologies rarely seen operating at ordinary museums.
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Hendersonville, NC
Dozens of playable pinball machines and classic arcade games fill this downtown museum, with admission generally allowing unlimited play rather than charging by the game. The collection spans multiple eras of mechanical and electronic arcade history.
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