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Museums and Collections

Kite Museum.

Museum of Kites

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

Airplane boneyard in Valle.

Valle Planes of Fame Air Museum

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

The mosaic votive skull.

Mexico City, Mexico

Mosaic Votive Skull

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

Museo Paolo Gorini.

Museo Paolo Gorini

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

The museum entrance.

Museo de América

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

Lyme Regis, England

Lyme Regis Museum

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

Walbrook Stream Skulls and assorted pagan votive figures.

London, England

Walbrook Skulls

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

Confinement cell.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

Black Tulip Museum main entrance.

Lisse, Netherlands

Black Tulip Museum

A journey through 430 years of bulbiculture in the Netherlands.

Antonini Museum.

Museo Antonini

This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.

The museum.

The Museum of Dollhouses, Games and Toys

A delightful museum entirely dedicated to the tiny homes of dolls.

Memorial plaques to Tycho and Jim, V&A Museum.

London, England

V&A Dog Memorials

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

Xochipilli.

Mexico City, Mexico

Xochipilli

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

Lion skull.

London, England

Tower of London Barbary Lion Skulls

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

Neil Cole's Adventures in Science Fiction: Museum of Sci-fi.

Allendale Town, England

Neil Cole's Adventures in Science Fiction: Museum of Sci-fi

Aliens and monsters lurk inside this museum dedicated to one man's lifelong adoration of all things sci-fi.

Museum of Medieval Stockholm.

Stockholm, Sweden

Museum of Medieval Stockholm

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

Inner courtyard of Jagdschloss Kranichstein.

Darmstadt, Germany

Museum Jagdschloss Kranichstein

This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.

Some of the Lewis Chessmen.

London, England

The Lewis Chessmen

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.