I have a relative in the Cape Cod League Hall of Fame.
I’m not certain if there is an actual “hall” but at least there are inductees into the Police Softball Hall of Fame .
::and that’s about as lesser known as I think you can get ::
There are several Fishing Halls of Fame, but only the National Freshwater Fishing HoF in Wisconsin is built in the shape of a giant pike:
http://www.freshwater-fishing.org/history.html
http://www.freshwater-fishing.org/
Minnesota:
http://www.minnesotafishinghalloffame.com/
New York:
I went to that earlier this year. It didn’t totally suck.
The building it is in is beautiful, it is in a good location, and admission was either free or included with admission to another nearby museum (I forget which).
If you are even slightly interested in cowgirls it is probably worth seeing. For me, not so much. My wife enjoyed it much more than either my son or I did, she probably would have stayed longer.
The Ohio city of Akron is home to the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Although there’s no structure housing the shrine, my father is a member of the Rathkamp Matchcover Society Hall of Fame.
I lived near Canal Winchester for a bit and never even knew it was there. Now I have something to do next time I am in Ohio.
Just today this year’s inductees for the California Hall of Fame were announced, though it was the first I’d heard of it.
Most ethnic groups have their own sports sub-halls-of-fame. When Tom Paciorek announced for the White Sox, he would speak often of his place in the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame.
Among other professions, in Chicago, we have the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame, which consists of eight heads on pikes which call up uneasy images of the French Revolution. There is also a more expansive Chicago Business Hall of Fame.
My town of Euclid, OH is home to both the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and the Slo Pitch Softball Hall of Fame. Both are located in the same building, the old City Hall.
I don’t think that the Hockey Hall of Fame is that obscure. After all, it’s where the Stanley Cup spends its offseasons.
Fort Lauderdale Beach is home to the International Swimming Hall of Fame. There are giant posters of, I think, a barrel-chested Johnny Weissmuller and a woman whose name escapes me on the outside, visible as you drive down the coast highway A1A.
It’s actually a surprisingly large complex, now that I see a photo of it. I’ve only ever noticed the three wave-looking buildings at the end, which is the A1A end of it.
Is the woman Summer Sanders, by any chance? If it is, I’m there. She’s a babe.
As an historical aside, the term “Hall of Fame” was first coined at the turn of the century to denote the Hall of Fame for Great Americans located on the one-time campus of New York University in the Bronx, NY. (NYU sold the campus in the 1970s; it is now occupied by Bronx Community College.)
The HOFFGA consists of an impressive collection of about 100 bronze busts of American notables from various fields. Some of them are still “household names,” like the Wright brothers and Ben Franklin; others are persons that make you go, “Huh?” There are a few women and non-whites, but not too many, as you might imagine. A bust of Lafayette stands nearby, but because he was not an American, his statue is off to the side, and he is not an official member of the club.
When last I checked, the HOF had fallen into a sort of dormancy. It was designed to accommodate statues of new inductees over the years, but the practice of voting in new HOFers and creating and installing their busts has not happened in recent decades.