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Vitrines with antique cameras.

Tallinn, Estonia

Tallinn Museum of Photography

This former medieval prison now unlocks Estonia’s rich photographic history.

Museum of Radiology

Brussels, Belgium

Museum of Radiology

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

Happy times at the Teddy Bear table

Brussels, Belgium

Le Museé du Jouet (Toys Discovery Museum)

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

François Richard's Scientific Devices and Odd Machinery
Permanently Closed

Saint-Ouen, France

François Richard's Scientific Devices and Odd Machinery

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Musée de la Poupée
Permanently Closed

Paris, France

Musée de la Poupée

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Papier-mâché puppets in the storefront.

Paris, France

El Clan Destino

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

Louis XIV's globes.

Paris, France

Louis XIV's Globes

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Pierre Bazalgues Macabre Antique Stand
Permanently Closed

Saint-Ouen, France

Pierre Bazalgues Macabre Antique Stand

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Museum of the History of Medicine

Paris, France

Museum of the History of Medicine

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Musée Dupuytren
Permanently Closed

Paris, France

Musée Dupuytren

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The Henry Rokham House

Chicago, Illinois

Terra Cotta Row

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

The Sunken City of Baia

Baia, Italy

The Sunken City of Baia

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens

London, England

Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

Salvador Dalí Sundial

Paris, France

Salvador Dalí Sundial

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The Chester Rows in an earlier century.

Chester, England

Chester Rows

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Museum Speelklok

Utrecht, Netherlands

Museum Speelklok

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

The Museum Of Wonder

Seale, Alabama

The Museum Of Wonder

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Model Fun Fair
Permanently Closed

Todmorden, England

Todmorden Toy & Model Museum

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

New York Academy of Medicine Rare Book Library

New York, New York

New York Academy of Medicine Rare Book Library

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The Garfield-Clarendon Model Railroad Club

Chicago, Illinois

The Garfield-Clarendon Model Railroad Club

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

Shopping paradise.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nieuwe Spiegelstraat

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Globe Museum

Vienna, Austria

Globe Museum

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Design Panoptikum

Berlin, Germany

Design Panoptikum

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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