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Permanently Closed

There's sustainably sourced taxidermy in spades.

Portland, Oregon

Redux Boutique and Gallery

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

Inyo County, California

Teakettle Junction

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The paintings are stored on tightly packed vertical wire partitions to save space.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia

Army Museum Support Center

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

Tucson Mineral and Gem World.

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson Mineral and Gem World

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Akin Free Library.

Pawling, New York

Akin Free Library

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

The Dostoevsky Museum.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

F. M. Dostoyevsky Literary Memorial Museum

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

Joplin, Missouri

National Cookie Cutter Historical Museum

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

National Wildlife Property Repository.

Commerce City, Colorado

National Wildlife Property Repository

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

How ‘Photo Detectives’ Have Helped Reveal Irish History

The National Library of Ireland asked the public for help, and the public provided it.

Vittoria Traverso November 2, 2017

A selection of lamps on display.

Bruges, Belgium

Lumina Domestica

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

Paul Broste Rock Museum

Parshall, North Dakota

Paul Broste Rock Museum

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

Alexandre Dubuisson's <em>La Moisson</em> was "torn in transit."

Where Damaged Art Goes When It's Deemed a 'Total Loss'

A second life for wrecked artworks that once languished in insurance warehouses.

Michael Inscoe November 1, 2017

The movable sculptures of the Museum of Kinetic Art

Tucson, Arizona

Mat Bevel's Museum of Kinetic Art & Surrealistic Pop Science Theater

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Stockport, England

The Hat Works

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

Chamber of Art and Curiosities.

Innsbruck, Austria

Chamber of Art and Curiosities

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

The colorful, glowing rocks of Sterling Hill

Ogdensburg, New Jersey

Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mine

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

School Bus Graveyard.

The School Bus Graveyard

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

The jacket was found in a Goodwill.

Found: A Stolen Soldier's Jacket From World War II

It was being sold for $4.99 at a Goodwill in Minnesota.

Sarah Laskow October 19, 2017