Southend-on-Sea, England
Cranfield's Curiosity Cabinet
A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.
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Southend-on-Sea, England
A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.
Portland, Oregon
Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"
Williton, England
A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."
Cornimont, France
This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.
New York, New York
Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.
Columbus, Georgia
A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.
Kolomyya, Ukraine
Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.
Rome, Italy
This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
Tabley, England
This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.
Healdsburg, California
This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.
Burlingame, California
A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.
Sierksdorf, Germany
A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.
Evanston, Illinois
More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.
Culver, Oregon
Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.
Depoe Bay, Oregon
The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.
Bend, Oregon
The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.
Poulsbo, Washington
Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.
Ellicott City, Maryland
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
Fulton, Missouri
A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The spectacular history of spectacles on display.