Collections

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.

Thousands of locks professing undying devotion line the metal chains of Lotus Peak.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.