An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.