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Evansville, IN
USS LST-325 is a surviving World War II landing ship of the type used to carry tanks, vehicles and troops directly onto beaches. The restored vessel is now permanently based on the Ohio River in Evansville and offers guided tours through a working piece of wartime naval engineering.
Camby, IN
Who North America began as a Doctor Who merchandise business in 1998 and later opened a dedicated physical location in Camby. Along with the store, visitors can see a museum of Doctor Who merchandise and memorabilia spanning the program's history, making it one of the country's most unusually specific pop-culture museums.
New Harmony, IN
Founded in 1838 with help from scientist and philanthropist William Maclure, the Working Men's Institute is Indiana's oldest continuously operating public library. Its upstairs museum contains natural-history specimens, artifacts and collections that preserve New Harmony's unusually dense legacy of utopian communities and scientific experimentation.
Columbus, IN
Inside the kidscommons children's museum, visitors can climb into a comically oversized toilet that doubles as part of the building's interactive plumbing-themed exhibit. The attraction is intentionally playful rather than a world-record engineering claim, but its giant scale makes it one of downtown Columbus's stranger indoor stops.
Columbus, IN
Zaharakos opened in 1900 and preserves an elaborate turn-of-the-century soda-fountain interior filled with marble, stained glass and mechanical music machines. The business functions as both an operating restaurant and a small museum, allowing visitors to eat among restored pieces of early American soda-fountain culture.
