The Frog Museum in Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland is a collection of 150-year-old satirical tableaus of domestic life in the 19th century — all involving stuffed frogs. The museum began in the... »

Unique Collections | Edited by Josh and Dylan

Housed in a remaining Victorian villa in Bournemouth. This is a fascinating museum of local artefacts. Including fossils, stuffed animals and preserved in formaldehyde. Many of these objects are... »

Unique Collections | Edited by ropami50

Founded in 1766, the Fragonard Museum is one of the oldest museums in France. Honoré Fragonard was one of the first medical masters of France, and his extensive collection contains rooms devoted... »

Strange Science, Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Salamalecs and 2 others

Housed in one of the last remaining Victorian villas in Bournemouth , it was originally lived in by Sir Merton and Lady Russell-Cotes. The main part of the museum is based on the collection of... »

Eccentric Homes | Edited by ropami50

Why build it? According to him 'Because he can'... or at least could. The Sutyagin house was a wooden house in Arkhangelsk, Russia. The 13-story, 144-ft tall residence of a local entrepreneur... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by jamesb and Dylan

When you think of oil you think of the Middle East or possibly Texas, but for a brief time Scotland was getting rich off of oil too. In the 1970s Scotland enjoyed a sudden oil boom made... »

Ghost Towns | Edited by stevied, Dylan and others

On one side of a stone archway inside St. Mary's Church, North Bar Within, Beverley, England, there is a familiar looking carving of a perky upright rabbit, or perhaps a hare, holding a messenger... »

Strange Statues | Edited by Annetta, Dylan and others

Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers was an English general, but, more importantly, he was a founder of modern anthropology. Though he designed firearms for the military, Pitt Rivers unexpectedly... »

Natural History, Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and Dylan

The Viennese Clock Museum is housed in the Harfenhaus (Harpist's House), one of the oldest homes in Vienna. With around 1,000 clocks in all, there is much to see, from ornate pocket watches, to a... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Long Now Locations | Edited by Dylan

One of two self-built castles in Hungary (the other is the much more ramshackle Tarodi Var), Bory Castle was the work of Hungarian sculptor and architect Jeno Bory. Bory built the castle between... »

Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and Henry