Historians and historical archaeologists are finding that road maos are a good source of information for early road and urban development.

Road Map Collectors Association

This museum covers the history of the American funeral, mourning customs, embalming, and funeral art.

Museum of Funeral Customs

The Lighthouse Museum information can be found under the Public Presentations link. An excellent site about a specific area.

St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum: Maritime Archaeology

ARTISTE is working on putting an image retrieval system together for the Web. This is an article about it.

Cultivate Interactive Issue 7: ARTISTE image retrieval system puts European galleries in the picture

An online museum dedicated to calculators. The site comes out of Germany.

Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

An interesting photo collection of ghost towns.

Ghost Towns | Pictures of ghost towns in Arizona, California, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico | Ghost Town Gallery

This photo collection ranges from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Steam & Electric Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad Digital Collection

This is an excellent museum of Anthropology.

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Home Page

A collection of vintage British slot machines. (Doesn't anybody remember Pachinko?)

Melvyn Wright's World of Vintage Slot Machines

An illustrated history of cameras, many from Germany.

Classic Camera Reference

A history of lawnmowers from the UK.

British Lawnmower Museum

Everything you ever wanted to know about crabs, including crab impostors. You can even play crab games! Beware, this site has different music for each section.
Dr Darren's World of Crabs - An Unusual Museum of the Internet

People keep the oddest items!

Furnace Sticker Museum

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Here is the "definitive" history of sword swallowing. An excellent addition to any circus museum.

Sword Swallowing To The Hilt!

Here is a maritime museum complete with several ships, including the Star of India from 1863.

San Diego Maritime Museum - Home

This site is a tour of the cemeteries of New Orleans.

citiesofthedead.net -- home

I find that some of the most interesting museums are the ones put up by the people themselves. Cemeteries and their tombstones are fascinating places to study symbols of life and death.

cemeterymonuments

Plimoth (read Plymouth) Plantation is also a living history museum, but quite different from Colonial Williamsburg. The reenactors here each play specific historical roles and stick with them like glue. The village itself is a working farm, with new buildings going up (in the correct period style of building), gardens, compost heaps, and food preparation.

Plimoth-on-Web

Colonial Williamsburg is a living history museum. While not totally accurate (where are the open sewers?), it is a great place to visit and talk to the reenactors. I enjoyed the military demonstrations.

Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg