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

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

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

Uncluttered beaches with gleaming white sand and gently lapping waves are really quite common. Or at least images of them are, as they decorate office cubicles, computer screen savers and vacation... »

Watery Wonders, Unique Collections, Cultures and Civilizations , Commercial Curiosities | Edited by Tawsam, Mark_Casey and others

Opening its doors on what would have been his 250th birthday in 1978, The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum is located as close to the actual spot he was born as one can get without being directly on... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by Rachel

The Wolfsonian- Florida International University is a museum, library, and research center in the heart of Miami Beach’s Art Deco District with a mission to "illustrate the persuasive power of art... »

Unique Collections, Obscura Day Location | Edited by katiebaker4 and Rachel

The National Railway Museum Collections have been built up over the past 80 years and are very rich. They comprise over 100 locomotives and nearly 200 other items of rolling stock, and tell the... »

Unique Collections | Edited by Tyke

In 1956, Antonio Pirrello had an idea. Unsatisfied with the yawn-inducing snoozefest of simply rolling around with four wheels strapped to his feet, he invented a prototype for something a little... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by Rachel

A magic lantern, the earliest known slide projector, dates all the way back to the late 1600s. Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit scholar of geology and medicine, first published his study of the... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Amazing Automata | Edited by AnnaFiddler and Rachel

In 1878 the original Maryhill Burgh Hall opened as a result of the town's increasing population growth and the lawlessness that naturally ensued. The building included necessary police... »

Unique Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by katiebaker4, Rachel and others