Unique Collections

Gongs of the Phibun Mangsahan Village

Thailand's country villages continue the tradition of gong-making, and invite visitors to watch the process.

Between the Phibun Mangsahan Bridge and Khong Chiam in Thailand, there are a number of eccentric villages famed for forging iron and bronze gongs. These instruments are used for temples and... »

Unique Collections, Musical Wonders, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by katiebaker4 and Rachel

East India Mall Shopping Center, Massachusetts, US

Count Orlok’s Nightmare Gallery

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public

Count Orlok’s Nightmare Gallery is a movie monster museum located in Salem, MA. This private collection of James Lurgio features full-size creature creations that are made of resin, latex, and... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by JWOcker, Rachel and others

British National Railway Museum

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year

Collecting trains is a quaint, imaginative hobby. Collectors learn about and understand history as they study and obtain various models that illustrate different points in history, exhibit... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by Tyke, Mark_Casey and others

City of Watertown, Massachusetts, US

Art of Jack Kevorkian

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death"

Jack Kevorkian, also known as “Dr. Death,” was born in 1928 in Pontiac, MI, and received a medical degree with a specialty in pathology from the University of Michigan in 1952. Starting in 1990,... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Memento Mori | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Witch’s Dungeon

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters

Cortlandt Hull is the great-nephew of Henry Hull, the actor who portrayed the titular creature in the 1935 film Werewolf of London. Perhaps because of that, Cortlandt has dedicated his efforts to... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by JWOcker

Town of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, US

Libby Museum

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands

By profession, Henry Libby was a dentist, however his passion was being a collector…of pretty much everything, including natural, anthropological, and historical wonders worth studying for... »

Museums and Collections, Natural History, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Zaffis Museum of the Paranormal

The personal collection of a professional demon-chaser

John Zaffis is the nephew of controversial paranormal investigators Ed and Lorrain Warren. He followed in their footsteps, and has become famous for his Museum of the Paranormal, which is located... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by JWOcker

Museum of Snoring

Getting a good night sleep is an age-old affliction, featured in this one-of-a-kind collection, the Snoring Museum

Schlafen sie gut? Located in Alfeld, Germany (once thought to be where the Brothers Grimm got their inspiration for Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs), is The Alfelder Schlafapnoe- Gesellschaft... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by acclarkey and Rachel

National Museum of Kyrgyzstan

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking

Kyrgyzstan’s National Museum harbors numerous interesting exhibitions, ranging from excavation finds to fascinating ethnographical collections, partly housed in dusty cabinets. But for the few... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Outsider Art, Unique Collections | Edited by Tawsam and Rachel

Town of Durham, New Hampshire, US

Betty and Barney Hill Archive

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees

On the night of September 19th and on into the early morning of September 20th in 1961, husband and wife Barney and Betty Hill were traveling South on Route 3 to their home in Portsmouth, NH,... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

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