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Belle Meade Plantation
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Belle Meade Plantation is an historic plantation mansion and its grounds that today function as a museum.

Getty Villa, The
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The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, USA, is part of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and Etruria.

Selena Museum / Q-Productions
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L-10 Minuteman III missile silo
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Nicknamed "Flight to Hades."

Adamson House and Malibu Lagoon Museum
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The historic home of Merritt Huntley Adamson, a local rancher, is set along the beautiful Malibu coastline and is home to a museum that explores the history of Malibu.

Brewmaster's Castle (Christian Heurich House Museum)
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From http://www.heurichhouse.org/history.htm:
The Heurich Mansion was built in 1892-1894, during Dupont Circle’s golden era as the city’s premier residential neighborhood, by German immigrant, American citizen, brewer, real estate magnate, and philanthropist, Christian Heurich.
Nicknamed "The Brewmaster’s Castle" while Heurich lived there, it was the city’s first fireproof home, having been built of reinforced steel and poured concrete, a novel construction technique at the time, and unheard of for residential construction. To ensure its safety, none of the fireplaces were ever used, and the top of the tower features a salamander, in mythology, a creature that guards against fire.
A distinguished example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, this Category Two Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places enjoys an international reputation as the most intact late-Victorian home in the country, and has been featured on A&E’s "America’s Castles" and HGTV’s "Dream Builders."

Cooter's Place
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Dukes of Hazzard Museum and Shop.

Hillwood Museum & Gardens
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The largest private estate within DC limits, now a musem. Once owned by Marjorie Merriweather-Post. Her daughter is actress Dina Merrill.

John Hendricks Ranch
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John Hendricks the founder of the Discovery Channels Ranch, Gateway Canyon Ranch. Currently on the market for $280 Million. Includes Gateway Canyon Resort and Car Museum.

Jackie Gleason's Grave
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The Honeymoon star, comedian and actor is buried here. On the stairs, a saying by Gleason is engraved, "And Away We Go"

Blackhawk Automotive Museum
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'LEGO House' by BIG
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2017

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
This museum highlights the history of country music from its birthplace in the Music City to present-day.

Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum

National Corvette Museum
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Klassix Auto Museum
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This large automotive museum closed in 2003. It featured muscle cars, race cars, and vintage motorcycles. NASCAR driver Mark Martin was a part owner.

Kunsthaus Graz
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The Kunsthaus Graz, Grazer Kunsthaus, or Graz Art Museum was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003 and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz, Austria. Its exhibition program specializes in contemporary art of the last four decades.

Glenn Miller Museum at the site of RAF Twinwood Farm
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Twinwood Farm control tower was restored in 2001-2002 and and houses The Glenn Miller Museum. This was the airfield where he started his fateful flight to Paris in 15th December 1944.
Pictures of the museum's opening here:
http://www.cranfieldaircadets.org.uk/Twinwood.htm

Paleis Het Loo
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Vatican Carriage Museum
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From
The Carriage Museum, a section of the Historical Museum, was set up by Paul VI in 1973. It houses a collection of carriages and automobiles used by popes and cardinals. It also contains a small model of the first locomotive that entered the Vatican City on the railway built in accordance with the 1929 Lateran Pacts.
These carriages have been restored thanks to the generosity of the patrons of the Florida Chapter.
The collection includes...
Black landaus carriage, the pope’s means of transport on non-ceremonial occasions, used until the early years of the papacy of Pius XI.
Gala Berlin carriage of Cardinal Lucien Louis Bonaparte (1829-95), cousin of Napoleon III; it bears a brass coat-of-arms with the Napoleonic eagle.
Two “terza gala�? berlin carriages (including thrones)
The papal means of transport also includes the sedan-chairs. The one upholstered in red damask was built for Leo XIII, and was also used by his successors. The wooden sedan chair, never used, was presented to Leo XIII, on the 50th anniversary of his priesthood.
In the final section of the Museum there are three cars used by recent popes: a Graham Paige (1929), a Citroen (1930) and a Mercedes Benz (1930), which was used by Pius XII.

Lambert Castle
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Madame Tussaud's and London Planetarium
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Thomas Edison Birthplace Museum
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Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, and many other devices that make our lives fuller and simpler, was born here in 1847. He lived in this house until his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, when he was seven years old.
The Edison Birthplace Museum features a collection of rare Edisonia, including examples of many of Edison's early inventions, documents, and family mementos. The Birthplace is open February through November.

Original Mc Donalds and Museum
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Alcoholics Anonymous: Bill W's House
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Stepping Stones is the historic home of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W. and his wife Lois Burnham Wilson, founder of Al-Anon/Alateen, in Bedford Hills, New York. It is a Colonial Revival structure built in 1920.

Vietnam Naval Support Base Camp Replica
Patriots Point's Vietnam Naval Support Base Camp features many of the various craft used to combat the dangers of patrolling the jungle and rivers throughout the Vietnam War.
On display is an original River Patrol Boat, which was used to stop and search boat traffic in areas such as the Mekong Delta, the Rung Sat Special Zone, the Saigon River and in I Corps, in the area assigned to Task Force Clearwater, in an attempt to intercept weapons shipments.
The extraordinary aircraft collection includes two Army Huey helicopters that were used in Vietnam following initial fielding in September 1962. The Huey saw service with the 82nd Airborne Division, the 101st Airborne Division, and the 57th Medical Detachment. The Huey became the basis for the creation of the 1st Aviation Brigade in 1966.
The display also is home to a Sea Cobra attack helicopter and many of the actual weaponry that was used during the Vietnam War.

The Fondation de l’Hermitage
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The Fondation de l’Hermitage is housed in a beautiful 19th-century residence and is devoted to holding temporary exhibitions on the fine arts.
It is surrounded by a magnificent park, permanently open to the public.

Palais de Chaillot
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For the Exposition Internationale of 1937, the old Palais du Trocadéro was demolished and replaced by the Palais de Chaillot which now tops the hill. It was designed in classicizing "moderne" style by architects Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, Jacques Carlu and Léon Azema. Like the old palais, the palais de Chaillot features two wings shaped to form a wide arc: indeed, these wings were build on the foundations of those of the former building. However, unlike the old palais, the wings are independent buildings and there is no central element to connect them: instead, a wide esplanade leaves an open view from the place du Trocadéro to the Eiffel Tower and beyond.

San Luis Rey Mission Church
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Mission San Luis Rey was founded in 1789. The present church was built between 1811 and 1815 and forms part of California's most pristine mission complex. The baroque facade of the church was meant to be flanked by twin towers, only one of which was completed. In 1893, the Catholic Church rededicated the mission as a Franciscan college, a function which continues to serve.

Russell Military Museum
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After being forced out of it's former location by the Village of Pleasant Prairie (WI) in 2006, this collection of military vehicles and artifacts was moved about 1.5 miles south to a new spot just across the state line.
The new museum opened in October 2007 and features a 14,000 sq. ft. building for indoor displays and a 10 acre paved lot for displaying aircraft and other hardware.

Stone Mountain Antique Car & Treasure Museum
The Antique Car Museum was opened in 1963 by Tommy Protsman to showcase his private collection of antiques and cars. With nearly four decades of experience under its belt, the museum now houses forty antique cars and over 4000 interesting antiques. The museum includes such rare cars as a 1948 Tucker and a 1928 Martin. Voted by Car Collector Magazine as one of the top ten car museums with fifty cars or less, the museum is a sure-fire destination for all car lovers and antique connoisseurs.

BMW World
The project that is underway at present will have become a special highlight of automotive culture on 20 October 2007.
A masterpiece of architecture which will allow you to experience the entire world of BMW. With every sense. A site of communication and encounter, a place where you can collect your new BMW yourself in an unmistakeable way - and the embodiment of the promise made by an entire brand, which will find a new home here:
the Ultimate Driving Experience.

North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame

Orgonon and Wilhelm Reich Museum
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Home and research laboratory of psychologist Wilhelm Reich:
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Hrad Červený Kameň
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Hugh Taylor Birch's House (Former) (Bonnet House)
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Bonnet House is a historic home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. It is located at 900 Birch Road. On July 5, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It is named after the Bonnet Lily.
The property was originally acquired by Hugh Taylor Birch in 1895, and given to his daughter Helen and her husband, artist Frederic Clay Bartlett, as a wedding gift in 1919. Bartlett built a plantation-style home on the property and wintered there with his wife and child from a previous marriage, Frederic Jr, until Helen died in 1925. Bartlett then married Evelyn Fortune Lilly, ex-wife of Eli Lilly, and they continued to use the home as a winter residence until his death in 1953 and hers in 1997. She deeded the property to the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation in 1983, which maintains the property as a historic house museum called the Bonnet House Museum & Gardens.

National Cryptologic Museum
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Adelaide Gaol
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Adelaide Gaol was an Australian prison located in Thebarton, South Australia, Australia. The gaol was the first permanent one in South Australia and operated from 1841 until 1988. The prison is now a museum, tourist attraction and function centre.

Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum
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Illinois Railway Museum
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The Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) is the United States's largest railway museum.

Eduard Vilde Muuseum (Eduard Vilde Memorial Museum)
From www.tourism.tallinn.ee:
Literary classic Eduard Vilde’s (1865-1933) Memorial Museum is housed in the castellan's baroque house in Kadriorg Park.
The house was built around 1850, and the palace governor worked here at that time. The writer Vilde lived on the first floor from 1927 to 1933. Five rooms are exhibited with contemporary interiors, as well as a documentary exhibit on the author's life and work in three rooms. The Castellan House Gallery, with art exhibitions, is located on the second floor.

Criminals Hall Of Fame Wax Museum
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The Criminals Hall of Fame Wax Museum is a wax museum on 5751 Victoria Avenue in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. One of many wax museums in the region, it is located at the top of Clifton Hill. The museum features forty wax statues of notorious criminals, from mobsters to serial killers. The museum was created in 1977 and has been open ever since.
Among the museum's featured criminals are contemporary serial killers such as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Charles Manson, which are interspersed with infamous historical figures like Billy the Kid, Pretty Boy Floyd, Clyde Chestnut Barrow, Lucky Luciano, Jesse James, Al Capone and Elizabeth Báthory. Not included is the Canadian couple Karla Homolka and her ex-husband Paul Bernardo. In 1999, the figure of Adolf Hitler was stolen from its glass case.

Jupiter Missile at Virginia Museum of Transportation

Gammons Gulch movie set & museum
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Music Video Productions such as Alyssa Molina's "I Had a Dream" or Television Commercials like Geer Doors or YellaWood have been done at Gammons Gulch.
Also Productions such as a reality based show from Belgium called "Wedding Bells In America". Also featured in the History Channel's Western Tech Series, where you can see the Old West Town and Telegraph office.
Old Western Town which is a mix the 1880's to the 1930's. Gammons Gulch has a collection of Antiques, Old Cars and Movie Memorabilia.

Wright Brothers Bicycle Shop
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The Wright brothers built bicycles at 22 South Williams Street in 1895 and 1896, just as they began to dream of flight.

Musée Grévin
Wax museum (approximately 500 characters) scenes from French history and the present day.

Former Site of the Capital Children's Museum
Closed on August 24, 2004.

Thinker at the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia
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Elm Farm Ice Cream and Dairy Museum

Belair Stable Museum
From www.cityofbowie.org:
Owned and operated by William Woodward, Belair Stable was part of the famous "Belair Stud," one of the premier racing stables in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Belair Stable was home to Gallant Fox and Omaha, father and son horses that won the Triple Crown, to Nashua, who was "Horse of the Year" in 1955, as well as to many other well-known race horses. Until its closing in 1957, Belair was the oldest continually operated horse farm in the United States, where horses were raised for racing purposes. Its history extends over two hundred fifty years. The Stable has been restored and is open as a museum.

Richard Wagner's House (former)
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The famous German composer lived here from 1866 to 1872. Prominent visitors included philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composer Friedrich Liszt and King of Bavaria, Ludwig II.
Today it is the Richard Wagner Museum.

Yellow Brick Road
Chittenango is the home of L. Frank Baum the writer of the OZ books. The yellow brick road leads tourists from the Oz Museum to Oz related sites around town.

Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum
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Blythe House
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Blythe House is a listed building located at 23 Blythe Road, West Kensington, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, UK. Originally built as the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank, it is now used as a store and archive by the Victoria and Albert, Science and British Museums.
Blythe House was used as a location for television series in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Minder and The New Avengers. The building is featured extensively as the fictional headquarters of MI6 in the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Al Ain Palace Museum
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The museum is based in the palace of the former UAE President, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and his family. It was originally built in 1937 on the western side of the Al Ain Oasis, the largest oasis in Al Ain. Sheikh Zayed lived here until 1966. It was made into a museum in 2001.

Anlage Sud military railway tunnel at Stepina
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Madame Tussaud's NYC
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Rachel Carson House
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Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths.
Late in the 1950s Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially environmental problems she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. Although Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides, and it inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.

Cybele Palace
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The post office headquarters was built in an eclectic style that displays Gothic, Romanesque and Renaissance features with a pinch of French detail, American sky-scraper and Spanish Modernism. The result is magical. The Postal and Telegraphic Museum is located inside and describes the development of the Spanish communication system starting with the 18th-century postal service and ending with today's sophisticated reality. There are sections showing the evolution of telegraphy, telephones and new technology as well as historical examples of postmen's transport and equipment and a model of the Hispasat satellite. The collection of Spanish and foreign stamps dating from 1850 is magnificent. Admission: free. Guided visits are available for school groups and clubs.

Madame Tussauds House of Wax
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Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London, with branches in Amsterdam, Hong Kong (Victoria Peak), Las Vegas, New York City and Shanghai(open soon). It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud.
Madame Tussaud (1761-1850), born Marie Grosholtz in Strasbourg, worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius, a physician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling. In 1765, Curtius made a waxwork of Marie Jean du Barry, Louis XV's mistress. A cast of that mould is the oldest work currently on display. The first exhibition of Curtius' waxworks was shown in 1770, and attracted a large audience. The exhibition moved to the Palais Royal in Paris in 1776. He opened a second location on Boulevard du Temple in 1782, the "Caverne des Grands Voleurs", a precursor to the later Chamber of Horrors.

Harley Davidson Museum
This 130,000 sq. ft. museum opened in July 2008. It features over 450 motorcycles and thousands of artifacts showcasing over 100 years of history and heritage of Harley Davidson motorcycles. A restaurant, cafe, and retail store are also on site.
The current birds eye scenery shows the final stages of constructing the museum.

George Wyth House and Viking Pump Museum
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Historical landmark for the City of Cedar Falls, IA

National Railroad Museum
Founded in 1956, it is one of the largest rail museums in the country.

Octagon, The
From http://www.archfoundation.org/octagon/about/index.htm:
The Octagon is the museum of the American Architectural Foundation. It is the oldest museum in the United States dedicated to architecture and design, and enables the AAF to increase public awareness of the power of architecture and its influence on the quality of our lives.
The house was designed in an American adaptation of the elegant Adam style, derived from the then-fashionable house designs popularized by Scottish architect Robert Adam. Breaking away from the earlier rigid formality of Georgian architecture, the Octagon incorporates a free-flowing, efficient interior with curved spaces such as the circular entrance hall and the dramatic oval staircase.
The architect, Dr. William Thornton, solved the problem of building on an unusual triangular lot by designing a unique six-sided structure, three stories high, that combined the basic geometric forms of circle, triangle, and rectangle. Functional features like the service stairway, dressing rooms, and closets are cleverly tucked away in odd corners of the house. Unlike most American homes of this period, the kitchen was within the house, located in the basement. To ensure smooth functioning of the house, basement rooms and outbuildings on the site were living and working quarters for slaves and servants.
No one knows for sure where the Octagon got its name, since it is clearly not eight-sided. One possibility comes from the round entrance hall. In the 18th century, round rooms were often constructed with eight angled walls plastered smooth and were called "octagon salons." Another clue is found in period dictionaries, which define an octagon shape as having eight angles rather than eight sides.

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
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Antique Powerland
Antique Powerland Museum is a power equipment heritage site operated by the Antique Powerland Museum Association, a non-profit organization. Powerland was originally established by a group of enthusiasts dedicated to the preservation, restoration and demonstration of steam powered equipment, antique farm machinery and implements.

Museo Interactivo Mirador
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Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum

Veste Oberhaus
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Veste Oberhaus is a fortress that was founded in 1219 and, for most of its time, served as the stronghold of the Bishop of Passau, Germany.
Veste OberhausThe building is located on the mountain crest (St.Georgsberg) between the Danube and the Ilz rivers and dominates the city of Passau that is located on the opposite, right side of the Danube. Below Oberhaus on the tip between the rivers Ilz and Danube is Veste Niederhaus, part of the fortress system. The fortress was attacked five times between 1250 and 1482. Twice, 1298 and 1367, the citizens of Passau themselves rebelled against the Bishop. Veste Oberhaus was never conquered militarily. The Bavarians occupied the fortress in 1741 but were forced out by the Austrians one year later. They returned the fortress to the Bishop in 1745.
Secularization in 1802 brought an end to the rule of the Bishop. Initially Napoleon occupied the fortress in his struggle with Austria, but in 1805 it surrendered to the Austrian army. After the Congress of Vienna the area was controlled by Bavaria. For a century the fortress became a state and military prison. In 1932 the City of Passau gained possession and instituted a museum. Today it also contains a youth hostel and a restaurant.

Beckford's Tower
Standing 120-feet high, the tower was completed in 1827 for local resident William Beckford to a design by Henry Goodridge. Beckford used the tower as both a library and a retreat, located at the end of pleasure gardens called Beckford's Ride which ran from his house in Lansdown Crescent up to the Tower at the top of Lansdown Hill.
Today, the tower is home to a museum collection displaying furniture originally made for the Tower, alongside paintings, prints and objects illustrating William Beckford’s life as a writer, collector and patron of the arts. Visitors can follow in Beckford’s footsteps and climb the spiral staircase to the beautifully restored Belvedere and experience the spectacular panoramic view of Bath.

Morven Museum & Garden
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Bovington Tank Museum
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Imperial Hall (Kaisersaal)
The Imperial Hall was built in 1715 as the university ballroom. In 1808 Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I of Russia met here for the Royal Congress.
A number of famous artists, including Niccolo Paganini and Franz Liszt, have performed concerts here.

Hofwijck, Huygens museum
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Voorburg is a Dutch town of approximately 39,000 inhabitants in the municipality of Leidschendam-Voorburg. It is located in the western part of the province of South Holland.
The cities of Leidschendam and Voorburg are now merged together under the new city name "Leidschendam-Voorburg". Situated adjacent to the city of The Hague, they are often regarded as its suburb.
Voorburg, the most densely populated of the three towns in the municipality, has its roots in the 2nd century, when a local civilian settlement gained city rights from the Romans, becoming known as Forum Hadriani. It was positioned along the Fossa Corbulonis, a canal connecting Rhine and Meuse that had been dug in 47 by the Roman general Corbulo. This waterway is now known as the Rijn-Schie canal (more commonly referred to as the Vliet) and is still a dominant landmark of the present day borough.
Famous inhabitants of Voorburg include the 17th century author and poet Constantijn Huygens, who spent many years building his small country house Hofwijck with adjacent geometrically shaped gardens alongside the Vliet. His son, the famous astronomer and mathematician Christiaan Huygens, spent several years in his father's Voorburg country house. The house, located next to the main railway station, now functions as a museum. Spinoza also lived in Voorburg from 1663 to 1670. The current Dutch Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Pieter Winsemius, was also born in Voorburg.
Voorburg hosts the major branch of the country's statistics institute, the CBS, which provides most of the statistical data used by the government.
Voorburg had three train stations until June 2006: Voorburg, Voorburg 't Loo and Voorburg-Leidschendam. The latter two are now part of Randstad Rail. Voorburg used to be an Intercity station, but it lost that status when the new train schedule was introduced in December 2006.
http://www.hofwijck.nl/hofwijck/en/

Children's Museum
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Also former home of the Computer Museum.

Queens County Farm Museum
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It's surprising to find a working farm in New York City.
http://queensfarm.org

Gun Barrel Proof House
The Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House was established in 1813 by an act of Parliament at the request—and expense—of the then prosperous Birmingham Gun Trade. Its remit was to provide a testing and certification service for firearms in order to prove their quality of construction, particularly in terms of the resistance of barrels to explosion under firing conditions. Such testing prior to sale or transfer of firearms is made mandatory by the Gun Barrel Proof Act of 1868, which made it an offense to sell, offer for sale, transfer, export or pawn an unproofed firearm, with certain exceptions for military organizations.
The Proof House still exists today, largely unchanged in both purpose and construction, although it offers a wider range of services including ammunition testing and firearm accident investigation.

Centraal Museum
The Centraal Museum is a museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The museum was founded in 1838. Initially, the collection - exhibited on the top floor of the Utrecht townhall - was limited to art related to the city of Utrecht. In 1921 the collection merged with various private collections in the new 'centralised museum' (hence the name 'Centraal museum', centraal being the Dutch word for central) located in the former medevial monastery at the Nicolaaskerkhof. Currently, the collection comprises pre-1850 art, modern art, applied art, fashion and the city history of Utrecht.

National Rod & Custom Car Hall of Fame Museum
The National Rod & Custom Car Hall of Fame Museum is located on Highway 85A an hour northeast of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The 40,000 Sq. Ft. facility houses over 50 custom built exotic vehicles by world renowned custom car builder and designer Darryl Starbird as well as many other famous hot rod and custom car builders.

Steamtown National Historic Site
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Steamtown National Historic Site is a railroad museum.

Neues Schloss (Bayerisches Armeemuseum)
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International Bowling Museum
The Museum collects, preserves and displays the 5,000-year history that has led to this worldwide success. A key part of that story is the individual efforts of bowling's legends honored in our Halls of Fame.

Reduit Tilly (Bayerisches Armeemuseum)

Wallace House
The Wallace House was completed in 1776 as Hope Farm for John Wallace, a successful Philadelphia merchant. General Washington leased the house for use as his headquarters during the Middlebrook Winter Encampment, December 11, 1778, to June 3, 1779.

New Castle County Court House
New Castle Court House Museum, also known as New Castle Courthouse Museum, is the center of a circle with a 12-mile radius that defines most of the border of the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania and a small part of the border of Delaware and Maryland. It is one of the oldest courthouses in the United States.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972.

Escher Museum
The Escher Museum (Escher in het Paleis, Escher in the Palace) is a museum in The Hague, The Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch graphical artist M. C. Escher. This museum opened on 16 November 2002.
The museum is housed in a former palace (Lange Voorhout Palace) dating from the 18th century, where Queen Emma lived until 1891. The museum features a large number of prints and sketches, as well as a multimedia journey through Escher's world (The Escher Experience).

Mexican Heritage Plaza
The Mexican Heritage Plaza is a museum and cultural center in San José, California, USA that opened in 1999. It is operated by the Mexican Heritage Corp., which has sponsored the International Mariachi Festival and Conference every summer since 1992
In addition to the La Galeria Museum, the plaza includes a 500-seat theater, gardens, classrooms, and meeting spaces.

Audi Museum
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Leavenworth National Cemetery

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum

Patrick Leigh Fermor's house
Alephs (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar and soldier who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War. He was widely regarded as "Britain's greatest living travel writer" during his lifetime. One BBC journalistonce described him as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene".
He and his wife, Joan Rayner, a well-traveled Englishwoman he had met in Cairo, built this house, just outside the village of Kardamyli, a few miles down the jagged coast from Kalamata, in the wild and remote Mani.
The house, largely untouched from when Fermor lived there, was bequeathed to the Benaki Museum in Athens

Pemberton House
damein234 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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National Capital Trolley Museum
From http://www.dctrolley.org/about.htm:
The National Capital Trolley Museum was founded in 1959 after the abandonment of streetcar service in the District of Columbia had become a certainty. The Museum opened to the public in 1969 at its present location in Northwest Branch Park in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The Museum's mission is to preserve and interpret the history of Washington's electric street railways. The Museum holds its collections in trust for the public and is accountable to the public it serves.
The collections consist of 17 streetcars from Washington D.C. and other cities. Many of these are operated on a one-mile demonstration railway. In addition, there is an O-scale model layout representing a Washington streetscape from the 1930's, a film program, and traditional exhibits of street railway artifacts and photographs.

Kärnan
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Kärnan (Swedish) or Kernen (Danish, both meaning The Core), is a medieval tower in Helsingborg, Scania, in southern Sweden. It is the only part remaining of a larger Danish fortress which, along with the fortress Kronborg on the opposite of Oresund, controlled the entranceway to the Baltic Sea.
The origins of the Helsingborg fortress is disputed but Danish legend places its origin to the reign of the legendary king Fróði. This legend has not been supported by archaeological proof but both records and archaeological proof have traced the structure to the early 13th century. It was considered the most important fortress in Denmark, and was integral in securing control over the strait between Scania and Zealand. It was surrendered to Sweden along with the rest of Skåneland as part of the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde. The fortress was retaken by Danish forces in 1676 during the Scanian War, and its capture celebrated by flying a giant Danish flag above it. This flag, measuring 17x7 meter, was later captured by the Swedish army and is preserved in the Stockholm Army Museum.
The fortress returned to Swedish control by the Treaty of Lund in 1679. Charles XI of Sweden ordered most of it demolished fearing that it was too exposed to a sneak attack from Denmark. The remaining parts of the fortress fell into disrepair and major renovations did not commence until 1893-1894. The building's cannellated "crown" dates from these repairs.

Permian Basin Petroleum Museum

Brunei Museum
The Brunei Museum is the national museum of Brunei. It is located in the capital city of Bandar Seri Begawan.
Since 1969, the museum has published the Brunei Museum Journal, an academic journal that is produced annually.

Ustica air disaster museum
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Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870, also known in the Italian media as the Ustica Massacre ("Strage di Ustica"), was an Italian flight that suffered an in-flight explosion while in route from Bologna, Italy to Palermo, Italy. It was a regularly scheduled flight from Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Bologna, Italy to Palermo International Airport in Palermo, Italy. The flight departed 2 hours late at 8.08 pm CET on 27 June 1980. At the controls of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 that evening were Captain Domenico Gatti and First Officer Enzo Fontana.
The aircraft (registered I-TIGI), which left Guglielmo Marconi Airport bound for Palermo International Airport, crashed at 8.59 pm CET into the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Ustica, Italy about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Naples, Italy. All 81 people on board were killed (2 flight crew members, 2 flight attendants, and 77 passengers).
Two Italian Air Force F-104s were scrambled at 9.00 pm CET from Grosseto Air Force Base to locate the accident area and to spot any survivors but they failed due to lack of visibility. In July 2006 the re-assembled fragments of the DC-9 aircraft were returned to Bologna from Pratica di Mare Air Force Base near Rome. On 23 June 2008, Italy announced that they have reopened the case of Flight 870.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolinee_Itavia_Flight_870

Fire Museum
Liti (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Antique farm equipment at the American Museum of Agriculture

Postmuseet (Norwegian Postal Museum)