Museums and Collections

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

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

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

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

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

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

A small museum of antique transport that's a must-see for bicycle lovers.

Ancient stone dildos and other odd pieces of medical history are displayed at this quirky Cyprus gem.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

A collection of over 2000 air-moving devices of all kinds displayed in the Fanimation headquarters.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Israel's first dedicated natural history museum is home to 5 million specimens and still growing.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.