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Fans on display at the museum.

Healdsburg, California

Hand Fan Museum

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

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Another attraction at the doll circus

Thorndike, Maine

Bryant Stove and Music

A couple's 60-year love of collecting is on display at this unique stove repair shop in Maine.

Manchester, England

Portico Library and Gallery

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

Selected plates from Margaret Gatty's "British Sea-Weeds."

The Forgotten Victorian Craze for Collecting Seaweed

Victorian women were excellent at it.

Cara Giaimo November 14, 2016

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Toronto, Ontario

Leslieville's Crazy Doll House

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

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Wicker and natural material bags on display.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tassen Museum of Bags and Purses

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

A Votomatic machine used in Palm Beach County in the 2000 election.

You Can Buy Your Very Own Florida Voting Machine From the 2000 Election

There are a surprising number available on eBay.

Sarah Laskow November 3, 2016

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Many breeds of dog.

Shell Lake, Wisconsin

Museum of Woodcarving

The world's largest woodcarving collection includes dozens of Bible scenes and a wooden bestiary, all carved by one man.

Ornamental skulls display in the Museum

Aguascalientes, Mexico

National Museum of Death

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

Mmmm

Hurricane, Utah

Pioneer Heritage Museum

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Prague, Czechia

Museum of Historical Chamber Pots and Toilets

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

Permanently Closed

Rosa Parks angel on the Montgomery bus

Beloit, Wisconsin

Angel Museum

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

Durham, North Carolina

V & E Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

A collection of props for a medium, including a talking skull, rapping hands and a slate to record ghostly visits.

Peek Inside the World's Most Strange and Morbid Collections

Vintage ouija boards? Check. A taxidermied two-headed cow? Check.

Anika Burgess October 19, 2016

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Vampire Killing Kit

Museum of Vampires

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Sierksdorf, Germany

Bananenmuseum

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

Giessen, Germany

Gießkannenmuseum (Watering Can Museum)

An homage to the humble watering can.

Maison d'Ailleurs

Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

Maison d'Ailleurs

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.