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San Diego Air and Space Museum

• 2001 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA 92101 | Directions
• 619-234-8291 | Website

Museum offers exhibits of over 65 aircraft, including an RQ-1K Predator UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) on indefinite loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which "saw action over the Balkans in the late 1990s"; a replica of Spirit of St. Louis, a Fokker Scourge (or Fokker Eindecker E-III), a World War I Spad VII, flight deck of the USS Yorktown, and a Lockheed Blackbird spy plane; 1400 scale models, 10,000 aviation-related items, and memorabilia from Montgolfier hot-air-balloon era to Space Age, along with an International Aerospace Hall of Fame.

"Ripley's Believe It or Not!" A self-guided tour of interactive galleries, including Aviation and Space Oddities; Unusual Modes of Transportation; Strange People and Odd Animals; Weird, Wacky, and Unusual Art; The Robert Ripley Story; Tribal Artifacts collected from around the globe (including an authentic shrunken head); Vampires and Graveyards (view an original vampire killing kit).