Top 20 museums in the USA

USA TODAY

For travelers, the best thing about reader review sites is how they surface the collective wisdom of the crowd, vs. the subjective opinion of a single author.

This is clear in Yelp's new rankings of the USA's top-ranked museums. No. 3 on the list is one of the world's biggest and best, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But it's topped in Yelp's five-star ratings by a military museum in Virginia and a modern art museum in Kansas City.

Military museums prove particularly popular with visitors, claiming five of the top 20 spots on Yelp's rankings. Also scoring well alongside some of America's most august art temples is an interactive California museum where you can play vintage video games.

Browse the slideshow above to see the 20 best-rated U.S. museums.