Mexico City, Mexico
La Casa Azul
Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.
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Mexico City, Mexico
Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.
Singapore
This jam-packed Singapore antique museum preserves the fading remnants of a uniquely mixed culture.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Johannesburg, South Africa
A growing popular hipster market with over 100 local specialties and live music.
Wellington, New Zealand
The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.
New York, New York
This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.
New York, New York
The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.
Le Roy, New York
The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.
Margate, England
Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.
Lincoln, Nebraska
A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.
Leiden, Netherlands
A former plague hospital turned medical museum.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.
Roubaix, France
Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.
London, England
Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.
Britt, Iowa
An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.
London, England
Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.
Gaiano, Italy
A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.
Hudson, New York
The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.
Heidelberg, Germany
A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.
Istanbul, Turkey
This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.