The Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City are indeed epic repositories of items not normally seen by most of us, but the following collections offer a glimpse of things that are truly unusual.
It’s easy to think of museums as the dusty, ill-lit, dank buildings full of boring old bones visited during grade school field trips, but the reality is that there are many museums that hold contents guaranteed to keep you thrilled, captivated, and dreading the arrival of closing time. Let’s take a virtual tour of just a few of the truly noteworthy collections open to the public. If we missed a favorite, let us know so we can add it to the next installment of “Museum Road Trips.”