Niche Museums

A museum documenting the history of surfing, housed inside the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse.

The Museum of Russian Culture "was established by those who left Russia as a result of the Civil War of 1917–1922". It is located on the third floor of the Russian Center Building and is open 10:30am to 2:30pm on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

This historic ferry pier now hosts a collection of ships, including an 1886 square rigged sailing ship (the Balclutha), a 1907 steam tugboat (the Hercules) and Eureka, a side-wheel paddle steamboat built in 1890 which is now the largest existing wooden ship in the world. The museum is run by the National Park Service so if you have their annual pass you can get in for free.

One of every Pez dispenser ever sold - over 1000 unique dispensers. Also home to a classic toy museum and a banned toy museum, including the Atomic Energy Laboratory and Lawn Darts.

Founder Michael Rugg has been collecting evidence of Bigfoot for decades, and will happily take you through all of it and answer any of your Sasquatch questions.

Unique collection of antique coin-operated arcade games, orchestrions and other artefacts, some of them over 100 years old. This type of machine breaks constantly so they are usually held in private collections, but Musée Mécanique has its own maintenance workshop allowing it to continue running them interactively for the public.