The Göcsej Village Museum is Zalaegerszeg's best reason to pause. It gathers wooden houses, barns, fences, farm tools, and a watermill into a small rural settlement, showing the architecture of the Göcsej region without making you drive through half the county to find it.
Come slowly rather than as a checklist stop. The pleasure is in the details: smoke-darkened rooms, small courtyards, patched roofs, and the way the buildings sit beside the old Zala watercourse.