Wonder Cabinets

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Home of the "true" equator.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.