Collections

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.