The Banana Museum
"The Washington Banana Museum curator is Ann Mitchell Lovell. Ann has assembled close to 4,000 items, a melange of artifacts, folk art and other cultural oddities devoted to the world's perfect fruit." Commercial Animation Art
"This collection of art and photos all came from the Ray Patin Studios. They produced hundreds of amazing black and white TV commericals all through the 50's and early '60s."
Devices of Wonder
"This website sponsored by the Getty Museum demonstrates a range of ingenious machines invented to augment visual perception and convey an illusion of reality. Spanning many centuries and including devices such as android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective theaters, magic lanterns, and camera obscuras, each represented the new media of their day..." Do-It-Yourself Projects
"These are a sampling of varied handcrafted undertakings done by skilled individuals within their own right. The collection provides some insight into the skill set that these do-it-yourselfers possess." Gallery of Huge Beings
"A collection of fiberglass and concrete giants standing tirelessly along our highways and by-ways, enticing us to buy tires, get gas, eat at Happy Chef..." Gallery of Monster Toys
The Gallery of Monster Toys is dedicated to preserving a disappearing facet of our popular culture. Vintage monster toys are typically overlooked by collectors, largely because they seem obsolete in today's world." Gallery of Obscure Patents
Blueprints and specs for motorized ice cream cones, a Santa Claus detector, bird diapers, a self-containing enclosure for protection from killer bees and at least a dozen other incredible gadgets you'll kick yourself for not having thought of first. Handcuffs.org
"Handcuffs and similar restraints have always been fascinating to people. Although their intended use as a tool of law enforcement is well understood by all and is indeed a bit frightening, handcuffs have captured the imagination of many." The Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products
"ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ('Buddy's Bug Hunt/1935') to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence." The Incredible World of Navel Fluff
Graham Barker, navel fluff collector: "Some people gaze into their navel for inspiration: I look into mine and see navel fluff. Also known as navel lint, it is that fascinating fluffy substance that forms mysteriously in the belly buttons of special people." Industrial Art Gallery
"This struck me as a deeply strange kind of art. After all, the usual model for art and design these days is that you make something that's a statement on some level, and then you try to put it where people will see it. And that approach certainly doesn't apply to people carefully embedding an aesthetic sense in a place where it is not just unnecessary, but is actually unlikely to be noticed." The Museum of Coathangers
"The origins of the coathanger are lost in the mists of time, but most anthropologists agree that they have been around for as long as we have been wearing clothes. The earliest evidence of their use is found in the inscriptions of the ancient Egyptians." The Museum of Hoaxes
Established in 1997 by science historian Alex Boese, the Museum of Hoaxes chronicles 300 years of "sensational acts of deception" perpetrated by pranksters, pseudoscientific con artists and the mass media. Exhibits include Barnum's Feejee Mermaid, April Fool's Day pranks and the online Emulex hoax of 2000. The site contains page after page of fascinating stuff. Highly recommended. The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
If you're curious about the workings of such modern miracles of science as Violet Ray Generators, Prostate Warmers, Tape Worm Diet Pills and Foot-Operated Breast Enlargers, there's simply no better place in the world to stop by and browse. (Don't forget to visit the Gift Shop on your way out!) The Museum of Jurassic Technology
"The Museum of Jurassic Technology has adapted and evolved until today it stands in a unique position among the institutions in the country. Still even today, the Museum preserves something of the flavor of its roots in the early days of the natural history museum - a flavor which has been described as "incongruity born of the overzealous spirit in the face of unfathomable phenomena." Neuroscience Art Gallery: Art and Psychosis
Example: "This is a graphic representation of a bout of anger. The young female patient who composed it told the doctor that the red netting emanating from her brain were electrical spikes. Her clenched fists and ferocious teeth indicate the hate she feel against herself and against her bouts of anger." Ripley's Believe It or Not!
The brainchild of cartoonist Robert L. Ripley, since 1918 "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" has thrilled audiences worldwide with wacky wonders, unbelievable oddities and fantastic factoids via every medium including the Internet. Rune's Barf Bag Collection
"If you thought air sickness bags were simply functional items you'd be wrong -- as the galleries show. They're collectors' pieces, considered by some as pure art." Scary '50s Foods
"A housewife, with her hair clipped in a smart helmet-head 'do, cheerfully whips up man-pleasing meals in her full skirt and pumps, whirling around her ultra-modern Eames-styled kitchen. This directory of sun faded pictures of sensible protein rich concoctions, though now gone, hasn't left my memory..." Strange Foreign Objects in Dog Feces
"Almost finished scooping. Wait! What's that shiny thing over there? Bending down, I see a dog turd. Looking closer (but not too close), I am amazed at what I see: An entire strand of purple Mardi Gras beads that I had caught a few weeks before at the Galveston Mardi Gras celebration. And the strand is intact." Toast Portraits of Famous People
"Portraits created from toast. The portraits require many thousands of slices of bread, toasted to different tones to create skin highlights and shadow. They measure many meters in height and width, and are displayed as billboards or in public spaces as the best view is gained from being some distance from the work." The Toaster Museum
"This museum is devoted mainly to North American electric toasters, but we look forward to being able to include more examples of pre-electric toasting devices and having a better representation of toasters from all over the world." Toilet Seat Art Museum
Barney Smith has been creating these works of art for 30 years and now has over 600 differently decorated Toilet Seats. Unusual X-Rays
"Browse around the seven galleries of unusual x-rays in this Website." Virtual Museum of Bacteria
"This museum is a collection of Internet sites on all aspects of bacteria and bacteriology. Your curator surfs the web on a regular basis to look new sites, and interesting findings are hyperlinked in the textual displays of this museum."
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