Collections

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.