MORE REALLY STRANGE COLLECTIONS

POKEMONS

Lisa Courtney from the UK is a real Pokemon fanatic. Lisa has been

collecting Pokemon toys since 1997, and has almost 15,000 of them.

Her collection includes items from the UK, USA, France and of

course Japan.

BELLY BUTTON FLUFF

Graham Barker from Perth, Australia is the owner of what is often

considered the most bizarre collection ever. He started to collect

the weird memorabilia when he noticed his own navel lint one

night and became curious about how much fluff a person produces.

Each night, he takes whatever he can find in his belly button and

stores it in a jar, bought specifically for this purpose.

At the end of each year, he adds the lint to his grand collection.

In the 26 years that he has been collecting his own fluff,

he has managed to fill three glass jars, and he is already working

on his fourth.

WATER GUNS

Boeing scientist Chris Reid’s has the largest Super Soaker water

gun collection in the world. The Super Soaker water gun was first

introduced in 1989 and quickly out-powered other water guns of its time.

Reid has about 340 Super Soakers overall, his very first water gun

was autographed by Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson.

ASPHALT

The Asphalt Museum is actually a real museum in Sacramento,

California. It was founded in 1991 by two Colorado State University students.

The collection consists of asphalt “samples” from Route 66, Highway 1

and the ancient Roman road Appian Way as well as not-so-famous roads.

SOVIET CALCULATORS

Sergei Frolov has a fantastic collection of over 150 Soviet-made

calculators, as well as vintage computers, watches and slide rules.

Frolov is even trying to raise enough money to open a Soviet

vintage electronics museum.

HOT SAUCES

Vic Clinco from Phoenix, Arizona, owns what is thought to be the

world’s largest hot sauce collection. His amazing 6,000 bottle collection

from around the world includes a rare bottle of “Blair’s 16 Million Reserve,”

the hottest sauce on the planet.

BARBIE DOLLS

Barbie dolls are not that unusual of a memorabilia for little girls,

but for a grown man is a different story. 33-year-old Jian Yang

from Singapore has in his house a collection of over 6000 Barbie dolls.

Although Yang has a pretty massive collection, the 2013 edition of

Guinness World Records gives the award for the largest Barbie doll

collection to Germany’s Bettina Dorfmann, who owns something

like 15,000 Barbies.

PENISES

Sigurdur Hjartarson, a former teacher from Iceland, has a strange

hobby of collecting penises from different types of species.

The collection has a total of almost 300 penises from different species

of animals including whales, seals or land mammals. Hjartarson is

adamant that his museum is a scientific and cultural undertaking about

which there’s no reason to be squeamish, and that there’s nothing erotic

or pornographic about it.