Cincinnati, Ohio
Lucky Cat Museum
This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
Beijing, China
This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.
Hollingbourne, England
A showcase of canine neckwear spanning five centuries of doggie fashion and function.
Tabley, England
This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.
Wellington Mill, Australia
Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.
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.
Sinaia, Romania
This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.
Park County, Montana
A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.
Chichicastenango, Guatemala
One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Elberton, Georgia
A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.
Peru
Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.
Keystone, South Dakota
Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.
Oslo, Norway
One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.