A fascinating museum of local artifacts is housed in a remaining Victorian villa in Bournemouth. Items include fossils, stuffed animals and preserved in formaldehyde. Many of these objects are unique. It is also home to an Egyptian mummy and sarcophagus of Tahemaa from Thebes.
There is a botanical garden in the back.
March 19, 2010
London, England
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
Tokyo, Japan
An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.
Birchington-on-Sea, England
An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.
Los Angeles, California
Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
