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Pune, India

Twelve Pound Howitzer

In the courtyard of a popular museum stands a piece of artillery from 1859.
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Podcast: Okomfo Anokye's Sword

In a courtyard in Kumasi, Ghana, you’ll find a sword planted in the ground more than 300 years ago.
The Podcast Team May 3, 2023
A sculpture of the Dover Demon, a cryptid supposedly seen in Massachusetts in the 1970s, on display at the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
cryptozoology

Take a Podcast Tour of Some of the World's Most Unusual Museums

Visiting some of our favorite very specific collections from the last two years.
April White April 5, 2023
Hawthorne Ordnance Museum
Hawthorne, Nevada

Hawthorne Ordnance Museum

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.
Other cannons inside the castle.
Westford, Massachusetts

Morro Castle Trophy Cannon

An artifact taken from one of America's shortest wars.
Museum of Badger Army Ammunition
North Freedom, Wisconsin

Museum of Badger Army Ammunition

Housed inside a former munitions plant that was once one of the largest in the country.
Hiroshi Igushi, principal of Kamiyama Elementary School in Ichinomiya, Japan demonstrates the use of a <em>sasumata</em>, the same day he actually used one to subdue an intruder.
weapons

In Japan, School ‘Intruder’ Drills Are Full-Contact and Unpredictable

In response to safety concerns, teachers and staff are trained to subdue and disarm.
Allan Richarz May 13, 2022
Motts Military Museum
Groveport, Ohio

Motts Military Museum

A unique collection of military history dating back to the American Revolution.
T-486 Patriot.
Corinne, Utah

ATK Rocket Garden

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.
Bratislava Old Town Hall
Bratislava, Slovakia

Bratislava Old Town Hall's Cannonball

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.
Naarden, Netherlands

Grote Kerk Cannonballs

The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.
Samurai Museum
Tokyo, Japan

Samurai Museum

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.
Sword of Okomfo Anokye
Kumasi, Ghana

Sword of Okomfo Anokye

On the grounds of a hospital in Ghana, a legendary sword said to have been plunged into the earth hundreds of years ago.
Innis House.
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Innis House

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.
Mounted knight in gold trim armour with war hammer
London, England

The Wallace Collection Armory

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.
clocks

Podcast: Åtvidaberg Sun Cannon

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team August 30, 2021
View across to the range.
Argyll and Bute, Scotland

Loch Long Torpedo Range

A long-abandoned relic of World War II.
Stubbert's Point Battery
Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia

Stubbert's Point Battery

Alongside a scenic road are the remains of crumbling World War II gun emplacement.