Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Michigan

In 1913, Gerald Ford’s mother fled with the 16 day-old future president (who was named Leslie King Jr. at the time) to her parent’s house in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where three years later she remarried, happily, to a paint and varnish salesman named Gerald Ford. The couple renamed their son Gerald Ford Jr. He grew up in Grand Rapids, so when it came time to build his official museum, he chose that city. The museum opened in 1981, and has displays about his life and times and presidency. Ford was known as the accidental president. He was a Michigan State Representative when Nixon nominated him to be his vice president, to replace Spiro Agnew who had resigned in a bribery scandal. Then when Nixon resigned after Watergate, Ford became president. He is buried at the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, and when his wife, Betty Ford, died in 2011, she joined him there.