There are few figures of the 19th century who have had a greater impact on the course of civilization than the Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell. His discovery of a unified... »

Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Unique Collections | Edited by Trevor and Dylan

On Monday, August 6th, 1945, at 8:15 am, a US bomber dropped the first nuclear weapon used in warfare over the city of Hiroshima. Estimates of the number killed vary from 90,000 to 166,000... »

Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Ghost Towns, Disaster Areas | Edited by spinkk and Dylan

As the criminologist Cesare Lombroso examined the skull of the autopsied the body of Giuseppe Villela, the notorious Italian criminal he had just dissected, he discovered a cranial anomaly known... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by Dylan

Designed and built by the Institute for Creation Research, the Creation and Earth History Museum is "a show case for a literal six day young earth creation model, as well as expanding the emphasis... »

Strange Science, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by M Rebekah Otto

The only nuclear reactor in the world that is owned and operated by an undergraduate college »

Strange Science, Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science | Edited by

When Nick Dalacu was a 17-year-old science student in Bucharest, he began collecting old scientific equipment. There was plenty to be found in the dusty halls of his Romanian university.... »

Strange Science, Unique Collections, Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities | Edited by wythe

Every Thursday night, scores of science fiction and fantasy fans gather for the weekly meeting of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. As the world's oldest continuously meeting science... »

Strange Science, Purveyors of Curiosities, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Trevor

The dime or dime store museum is by all accounts an endangered species. The first dime museum, "The American Museum," was opened in 1841 by none other than P. T. Barnum himself. It represented a... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Outsider Art, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan and wythe

Loren Coleman first started pursuing unusual, often inexplicable animals in 1960, and has since become one of the world's foremost experts in the field of cryptozoology. The discipline, as... »

Fascinating Fauna, Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Natural History, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Strange Statues, Intriguing Environs | Edited by littlebrumble, wythe and others

Steve Erenberg, aka Radio Guy, has what could only be described as a one-of-a-kind collection. The collection includes anatomical models, armor, scientific instruments, and objects that are... »

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