Museums and Collections

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

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

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

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

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Surreal works of unreal stone and metal dot the landscape of this Latvian art park.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.