Museums

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Home to 200 plaster casts of Scandinavian proboscises.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

A supply store for traditional healers, this shop sells the hair of a dog--and its skin, skeleton, and reproductive organs, too.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.