Wonder Cabinets

This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.

Unique museum with a dizzying array of collectibles, from corkscrews to typewriters and much more.

The writer's study, a “portable museum,” is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid.

This cabinet of curiosities contains many special and fantastical objects from around the world.

A German artist built a home and garden filled with whimsical art pieces, like a massive, operational volcano.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.