Oxford, England
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
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Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
Mount Angel, Oregon
World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.
Munich, Germany
One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Hartford, Connecticut
The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
Helsinki, Finland
A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.
Salzburg, Austria
The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.
Portland, Oregon
Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.
Bluff City, Tennessee
A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.
Sanborn Township, Michigan
One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.
Concepción, Chile
Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.
Seattle, Washington
An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.
South Hadley, Massachusetts
One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.
Carlsbad, California
This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.
Bristol, Rhode Island
The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.
Nono, Argentina
One man's quest to collect artifacts from every aspect of human life has resulted in this eclectic Argentinian museum.
Seattle, Washington
This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.