THE world's most celebrated museums are bastions of artistic, scientific and historical artifacts and information - but are they big on giggles and gasps?

The Guggenheim has Gauguin and the Smithsonian has Apollo 11 survival equipment, but neither one has a teeny-tiny lawnmower or a stuffed bunny on a wind-up scooter. Not that they'd want to.

If modern art has taught us anything, however, it's to embrace your inner eccentric. So join us for a whistle-stop tour of the world's most peculiar repositories of curiosities.

IT'S AN ODD, ODD WORLD, continued