51 Weird Museums Across the U.S.: One For Every State (and D.C!)

yahoo ^ | Feb. 4, 2015 | Melinda Crow

[bgill]

We, as a country, love weird things. We celebrate it, wear T-shirts proclaiming our weirdness, and enshrine oddities that probably should have gone out with the trash a decade ago. And that’s okay.

At Yahoo Travel, we went in search of weird, wonderful, and wacky museums that are worth going out of your way to see.

[bgill]

California - International Banana Museum

Texas - National Museum of Funeral History

Oregon - Vacuum Cleaner Museum

West Virginia - The Mothman Museum

[cripplecreek]

Hey we have a Moist Towelette museum in Michigan.

[kaehurowing]

The Mothman Museum would clearly be worth a visit.

[Jewbacca]

Pretty sure there are 57 states. Obama told me.

[FlJoePa]

Coral Castle is very, very cool (imo). I wouldn't call it weird. Just fascinating.

[a fool in paradise]

#57, the Obama Museum o fArt

[gorush]

The Mustard Museum is here in Wisconsin.

[a fool in paradise]

[cripplecreek]

The Agate museum in Grand Marais MI is pretty cool but the one to visit is the Shipwreck museum at Whitefish point.

http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/whitefish-point-4/

[MeshugeMikey]

where all the art is....well Obie Himself....

[NorthstarMom]

I was pretty sure that the Twine Museum, houses the world’s largest ball of twine, would be Minnesota’s weirdest museum. But checking out the website for the House of Balls makes me see why it’s the winner, thought it seems like it would be a better fit in the “Museums Run by a Psychopath” article.

[Jamestown1630]

People with obsessions like this fascinate me, too.

A French postman did something similar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval

-JT

[NewHampshireDuo]

For Maine, I’d pick the Wilhelm Reich Museum in Rangeley.
http://www.wilhelmreichtrust.org/museum.html

[mountainlion]

Colorado has a tropical insect museum. You would have thought it would have something to do with loco weeds.

[DesertRhino]

What about the other 5 states?

[central_va]

Walter Reed Medical History Museum is a scream. It’s now in MD. Go BEFORE lunch.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Ditto on Coral Castle being fascinating - visited there in ‘85 - want to go back someday...

[colorado tanker]

Geez, Colorado’s isn’t weird at all. And Wyoming’s is the Old Territorial Prison, which is actually a pretty interesting place. Butch Cassidy was once a “guest.”

[Scrambler Bob]

Found this by accident, near Baltimore’s BWI airport.

Had an Enegma Machine on display at that time.

National Electronics Museum

http://www.nationalelectronicsmuseum.org/

[xp38]

Well Toronto has the Bata Shoe Museum.

http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/