Affecting humans for 4,000 years, leprosy is not a pretty sight. St. Jorgen’s Hospital in Norway is one of world’s oldest medical institutions, establishing itself in the Middle Ages to treat lepers. Between 1850 and 1900 Bergen was the international capital of leprosy, with three hospitals and the largest concentration...
The tiny Musée de la Prohibition is housed, appropriately enough, near the bar in Hotel Robert at Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a tiny group of islands belonging to France but lying off the coast of Newfoundland. During prohibition in the U.S., Saint-Pierre was a staging point for rum-runners, mostly the Mafia. A hat...
I doubt anyone will disagree (except the Walmart family) that there is nothing scarier than an evil corporation. But what about faceless corporate goddesses? Sitting atop a Philip Johnson-designed office building on the corner of Kearny and California Streets in San Francisco, twelve ghostly statues, wrapped in long cloth garments,...
Imperial War Museum North In a building designed by world famous architect Daniel Libeskind, this branch of the Imperial War Museum explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society chronologically in six thematic displays. The walls of the gallery are used as screens for the projection of hourly...
On the outskirts of Interlaken, a resort town in Switzerland, is Mystery Park, a museum/amusement park dedicated to the great “mysteries” of the world. The park was designed by Erich von Däniken, who believes that alien astronauts not only inspired the Egyptian and Mesoamerican pyramids but had their hands in...
One might jump to the assumption that the only person crazy enough to collect over 1,800 tubes of toothpaste would be a dentist — and guess what? You’re right. At the moment, the only guy to have such a collection is, in fact, a dentist named Dr. Val Kolpakov from...
Museum of Endangered Sounds. SaveTheSounds is an online gallery of the sounds of yesterday - including your favorites like the AOL dial up, Pac Man and more. As my friend Mark (who sent this to me) said, “it’s not necessarily nostalgia, but a recognition of things that are slipping away…...
I can’t think of a better way to honor the 98th anniversary of the place where World War I got started (besides listening to a Franz Ferdinand song of course) then with a visit to the Museum of Sarajevo 1878-1918 (or as I like to call it the Museum of...
I’ve spent more than a few nights in a hotel room with my mommie dearest, so next time she wakes me up in the middle of the night, well, I know where I’ll be sending her…on the next flight to Germany to take a nap in the Museum of Snoring....
Have a thing for parasites? Well, go visit the world’s only Parasite Museum next time you’re in Tokyo, Japan. The Meguro Parasite Museum explains the parasite/host relationship as it applies to all creatures on earth, like in the picture above, which is a dolphin’s stomach. Ready to eat some lunch?
As a semi-vegetarian who tears up after seeing roadkill and would rather starve than hunt animals, I don’t know why I am posting these photos, but maybe it’s because I can’t believe such a place exists. Above La Basilica de Nuestra Señora de Agua Santa in Baños, Ecuador is a...
So many strange and interesting museums in the world. For example, the Chamber Pot Museum in Munich, Germany. This tumblr has covered toilets before (specifically toilet seat art). But what about life before the invention of toilets? Well, the Munich Museum had a collection of over 2,000 pots where royalty...
