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Museums and Collections

Mausoleum with Statue

McKinley Presidential Library & Museum

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

In addition to posters, the museum features multimedia displays

Warsaw Poster Museum

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

Permanently Closed

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.

Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

A Polish communist era water closet

Bydgoszcz, Poland

Museum of Soap and History of Dirt

Come to this Polish museum to take a good, clean look at filth.

Quite a collection

Winamac, Indiana

World of Motorcycles Museum

A large collection of motorbikes with some impressive gems.

Westland Lysander

Biggleswade, England

Westland Lysander at the Shuttleworth Collection

A rare example of the RAF’s flying spy taxi.

Ulan-Ude, Russia

Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

Permanently Closed

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.

Cuckooland in Tabley, Cheshire.

Tabley, England

Cuckooland

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

Prague, Czechia

Museum of Historical Chamber Pots and Toilets

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

Various clocks

Spillville, Iowa

Bily Clocks Museum

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

Take a Virtual Tour of One Man's Strange World of Stuffed Animals

Walter Potter, Victorian taxidermist, transformed a preservation profession into peculiar art.

Lauren Young October 25, 2016

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.

Minski rajon, Belarus

The Stalin Line

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

Durham, North Carolina

V & E Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.