A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

A stunning 18th century pharmacy and medieval chemist's collection.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.