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Strange Museums

John Hampson’s Bug Art

St. Johnsbury, Vermont

Thousands upon thousands of real beetles, moth parts, and insect wings were arranged into elaborate symmetrical mosaics that look decorative until viewers realize what they are…

Historic Oddities

Landlocked Steamboat Ticonderoga

Shelburne, Vermont

A 220-foot passenger steamboat somehow ended up sitting on dry land two miles from Lake Champlain, where visitors can now walk through all four decks.

Historic Oddities

Hope Cemetery

Barre, Vermont

Barre's famous granite workers turned a cemetery into an outdoor sculpture gallery filled with race cars, airplanes, furniture, sports equipment, and wildly personal monuments.

Strange Museums

Main Street Museum

White River Junction, Vermont

Ten thousand piano rolls are only the beginning inside a former firehouse packed with taxidermy, obsolete devices, postcards, odd collections, and artifacts that resist normal museum…

Roadside Attractions

Vermontasaurus

Post Mills, Vermont

A gigantic dinosaur assembled from scrap lumber sprawls beside a rural Vermont airfield, looking like a prehistoric skeleton rebuilt by someone with a pile of old…

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.

Roadside Attractions

Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard

Waterbury, Vermont

Behind Ben & Jerry's Vermont factory, discontinued ice cream flavors receive real granite headstones, dates, and pun-filled epitaphs on a hillside graveyard.

Curious Landmarks

Brookfield Floating Bridge

Brookfield, Vermont

A real state highway crosses Sunset Lake on a bridge that actually floats, continuing a Brookfield tradition that began because the lake was too deep for…

Giant Objects

World’s Tallest Filing Cabinet

Burlington, Vermont

Thirty-eight filing cabinet drawers rise into the Burlington sky as a rusting monument to decades of paperwork generated by a road project that took forever to…