Field index

Strange Museums

Browse documented strange museums from across America.

Search the archive

Explore Oddities

Find unusual destinations by keyword, location, or category.

Clear all filters

80 documented oddities Highest curiosity first

View Map

Strange Museums

Philippi Mummies

Philippi, West Virginia

Two human bodies preserved in 1888 by an amateur experimenter still lie in glass-topped coffins inside a small West Virginia historical museum.

Curious Landmarks

Goldwell Open Air Museum

Beatty, Nevada

Ghostly diners, a pink giant, and a penguin-toting prospector haunt an outdoor desert museum.

Historic Oddities

Zwaanendael Merman

Lewes, Delaware

A shriveled monkey-fish sideshow creature waits inside a Dutch-style Delaware museum.

Strange Museums

Bigfoot Crossroads of America

Hastings, Nebraska

Life-size Sasquatch figures and decades of cryptid lore fill a Hastings museum.

Haunted Locations

Historic Squirrel Cage Jail

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Prison cells once rotated inside this Victorian jail like a human-sized carousel controlled by a hand crank.

Roadside Attractions

House of Frankenstein Wax Museum

Lake George

A monster-filled wax museum with animatronic scares on Lake George’s main street.

Giant Objects

Idaho Potato Museum

Blackfoot, Idaho

A former railroad depot celebrates the potato with farming relics, novelty exhibits, and a giant spud outside.

Strange Museums

Bread & Puppet Museum

Glover, Vermont

A 150-year-old barn is packed floor to ceiling with gigantic papier-mâché heads, towering figures, masks, creatures, and decades of retired performance puppets.

Historic Oddities

Experimental Breeder Reactor I

Arco, Idaho

The reactor that first turned nuclear energy into usable electricity survives as a hands-on desert museum.

Strange Museums

PEZ Visitor Center

Orange, Connecticut

Thousands of candy dispensers, a factory viewing window, and the world's largest PEZ dispenser fill this shrine to tiny sugar bricks.

Strange Museums

RV/MH Hall of Fame

Elkhart, Indiana

A simulated indoor campground packed with antique housecars, tiny trailers, early motorhomes, and a century of rolling vacation history.

Giant Objects

Big Well

Greensburg, Kansas

A spiral staircase descends into a 109-foot hand-dug well built with picks, pulleys, barrels, and an astonishing amount of nerve.