Shelburne Museum.

Shelburne Museum is less a traditional gallery and more a 45-acre village of curiosities perched near Lake Champlain. Founded in 1947 by folk art pioneer Electra Havemeyer Webb, the campus features 39 buildings, 25 of which are historic structures—including a lighthouse, a one-room schoolhouse, and a jail—uprooted from across New England and reassembled here. The sheer scale of the collection is idiosyncratic, ranging from a 220-foot side-paddle steamboat permanently "docked" on a grassy knoll to a carousel from 1907. Inside the structures, the curation rejects dry chronology for thematic immersion, displaying over 100,000 items like hand-carved decoys, horse-drawn carriages, and rare quilts. It is a sprawling, sensory tribute to the vernacular beauty of American life.