Amsterdam is a city of permissions and tolerance, and home of one of the most famous red light districts in the world. Tourists flock from all around to indulge in, or at least gawk at the ladies... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by serflac and Rachel

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Amsterdam is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Europe. It is also a self-proclaimed experiment in freedom, which has forced many of the city's beautiful buildings and districts into... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by serflac and atimian

Possibly the largest collection of human mutants in one place, the University of Amsterdam’s anatomical and embryological museum began as the private teratological collection of Gerardus Vrolik... »

Medical Museums, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others

After you check out Amsterdam's marijuana museum, its torture museum and its sex museum, stop by the Bijbels Museum (Biblical Museum) to see a curious collection of biblical memorabilia. The... »

Unique Collections | Edited by michelle and Dylan

The Torture Museum in Amsterdam reveals the dark history of a time when justice was meted out by sticks and spikes. It is composed of a few darkly lit corridors and prints displaying tortures... »

Unique Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by michelle, Dylan and 4 others

In 1985 the same year that Jack Herer published "The Emperor Wears No Clothes," his famous book explaining the benefits of cannabis and hemp, the Hash, Marijuana and Hemp Museum opened its doors... »

Pharmacy Museums, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan and michelle

In a city chockablock with museums, one of the smallest and most unusual is home to about 50 mechanical player pianos and almost 20,000 punched rolls of music. The player piano was an American... »

Unique Collections, Musical Wonders, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech, Amazing Automata | Edited by Annetta

Ever since the early nineteenth century, the Theunissen family has had a strange obsession with spectacles and the mark they've made in the history of fashion. Over 35 years ago, the father of... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by CPilgrim and Dylan

A holdover from Holland's past, the Nieuwe Spiegelstraat in Amsterdam is lined with arcane antique shops, each one a museum to an obscure corner of history. Particularly worth visiting is Thom &... »

Wonder Cabinets, Commercial Curiosities, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by Dylan