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Sign and left side of the collection of bells
Elgin, Nebraska

Bells of the Prairie

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.
Bouvet Island, South Atlantic Ocean. All the photos in this story reflect some of the most difficult-to-visit sites in the world, much coveted by travel collectors.
islands

Can You Be Addicted to Travel?

An exploration of wanderlust, compulsive curiosity, and the world’s most traveled persons.
Dave Seminara July 20, 2021
Every tour begins in the basement, featuring a bar decorated in Russian vodka labels.
Staten Island, New York

Booze History Museum

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.
A small part of the dice collection at the Office of Collecting and Design
Las Vegas, Nevada

Office of Collecting and Design

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.
museums

Podcast: Museum of Broken Relationships

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team July 1, 2021
Sennhauser plated this Japanese breakfast on his set of vintage Japan Airlines dishware.
collections

Meet the Man Recreating Air Travel’s Most Glorious Meals

No one loves food in flight like Nik Sennhauser.
Anne Ewbank June 21, 2021
medical museums

Podcast: Museum of Quackery and Medical Fraud

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 15, 2021
At the museum, Elvis is alive and well.
museums

Philadelphia’s Neon King Gets a Glowing Castle

Longtime neon connoisseur Len Davidson finally has a museum to house his impressive collection.
Max Ufberg June 1, 2021
Uranophane from the German site of Menzenschwand in Baden-Wùˆrttemberg.
abandoned

A DIY Guide to Collecting Radioactive Rocks Gets Glowing Reviews

The free how-to dispels myths and minimizes the hazards of hunting and hoarding these special specimens.
Sarah Scoles May 20, 2021
A small uranium-glass pitcher (left) and uranium glass plates (right).
radioactive

The Collectors Who Hunt Down Radioactive Glassware

Their tools are black lights and Geiger counters.
Amiee Maxwell May 17, 2021
outsider art

Podcast: The Institute of Illegal Images

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team May 3, 2021
Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is one of several American museums whose collections include the remains of Black people.
science

U.S. Museums Hold the Remains of Thousands of Black People

Cadavers from marginalized communities have been co-opted for collections since the 1700s.
Delande Justinvil and Chip Colwell April 12, 2021
Geologist Daphne Lee, in her office at the University of Otago, has collected drawers full of impressively preserved plant fossils found at Foulden Maar.
collections

New Zealanders Are Rallying to Save Local Fossils From Destruction

For years, miners and geologists cooperated to uncover uniquely preserved fossils at Foulden Maar. But the site’s future is uncertain.
Kate Evans April 6, 2021
abandoned

Podcast: Gold Medal Flour

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team March 31, 2021
Crisco released a slender cookbook aimed at "the Jewish Housewife."
libraries

Inside the World's Largest Jewish Cookbook Collection

A librarian with a love for eBay built this trove of culinary history.
Anne Ewbank March 24, 2021
Dark Matter Oddities & Artisan Collective
New Orleans, Louisiana

Dark Matter Oddities & Artisan Collective

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
The Terrorium Shop
Denver, Colorado

The Terrorium Shop

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.
Mongoose fighting cobra.
Brisbane, Australia

Seized Endangered Species Exhibit

An exhibit of endangered species confiscated from smugglers and passengers.