DFW Elite Toy Museum

Haltom City, Texas

Millionaire Ron Sturgeon once collected cars, but prefers toy cars now. His collection, numbering over 3,000, runs the gamut from a super-rare Eva Braun Mercedes and a Fhrerwagon with Hitler giving a sieg heil salute, to streamlined Japanese cars-of-the-future from the 1950s, to the world's best collection of instructional car models used in Driving Schools. Sturgeon also likes dogs (the museum is dog-friendly), and collects toy cars that have dogs as either passengers or drivers. Dogs in German-made toy cars sometimes bark when the tires turn. He also has examples of toy Mercedes populated by clowns and robots.