91 Awesome Collections Of Items Many Would Not Think Of Collecting

Some of us are into bowling, others love traveling, nature, or rock hunting. Does that mean you collect all the bowling balls to make a giant pyramid, or gather every single mosquito you’ve ever killed, or arrange the keys of every hotel and motel you’ve ever been to? Well, for these people, it does indeed.

Meet the collectors of the most random items out there, who prove that nothing is off-limits when it comes to human curiosity.

From a shark tooth collection to a collection of every insect found at home in Australia, Bored Panda has compiled a list full of the most bizarre, wonderful, and entertaining assemblages. Scroll down, upvote your favorites, and let us know what you adore collecting in the comment section below!

#1 This Is One Of Several Alphabets Assembled By Belgian Type Designer Clotilde Olyff From Stones Collected At The Beach

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#2 Over The Past 15 Years My Dad Collected 1,785 Bowling Balls And Built A Giant Bowling Ball Pyramid

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#3 Since The Late 80s, My Office Has Been Collecting Used Staples That Were Removed From Documents That Needed To Be Microfilmed/Scanned. Here Is That Collection

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#4 This Collection Of Objects Swallowed By Children

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#5 The Airbnb That I’m Staying In Has A Collection Of Rubber Ducks In The Bathroom Wall

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#6 Perfectly Round Rocks I Found On The Beach. Bonus: Egg, Dorito, And Watermelon Rock

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#7 Friend's Mom In Australia Has A Collection Of What She Found In Her Home

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#8 My (87-Years-Old) Father's "Ugly" Golf Ball Collection

My old man, who is now pushing 90 and can't get out to play anymore, was always the guy who would hit his shot, then poke around in the woods and ponds looking for golf balls. He saved buckets of good golf balls, but his real pride and joy is his collection of "ugly golf balls". He was overjoyed any time he'd find a rotten old ball that had been hit by a mower and left to decay. The guy got a hole-in-one once, complete with a big plaque. He promptly lost that golf ball. But he invites strangers into his home to show them his ugly golf ball collection. It's the little things!

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#9 My Sand And Dirt Collection From Every Place I Visited

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#10 My Shark Tooth Collection

I found them all on the beach

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#11 My 100% Complete Collection Of Every LEGO Shield Ever Made

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#12 My Grandfather Used All Of His Hotel/Motel Keys He Received From His Job As A Travelling Salesman And Made Them Into A Map Of The US

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#13 The Amount Of Train Tickets I’ve Collected By Commuting To University For One Year

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#14 My Four-Leaf-Clover Collection (Plus A Couple Five-Leafers In The Middle)

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#15 Someone Had All The Failed Presidential Candidates Bumper Stickers On Their Car

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#16 This Is My Periodic Table Of Elements With Actual Elements

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#17 A Collection Of Things My Local Shop Has Pulled Out Of Flat Tires

Fun fact: the white circle in the top left is one of those security tags for clothes.

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#18 My Girlfriend Cleaning Her Monopoly Collection

She has about 600. There are some duplicates and most are sealed. The oldest one is from the 1940’s I think. My favorite is the Harley Davidson one which weighs about 20 pounds

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#19 My Grandma With Her Birdhouse Collection

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#20 Weapons Collection From The Royal Armouries In Leeds, UK

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#21 I Helped My Dad Alphabetize His Vinyl Collection

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#22 Collection Of Reference Seeds Found In My Grandad’s Attic

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#23 My Game Collection Is Finally Out Of Storage! Wife Surprised Me By Building Shelves As An Anniversary Gift Today

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#24 My Dad's Lifelong Collection Of Matchbooks

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#25 My Doctor Has A Kept All The Pictures Kids Have Drawn Of Him

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#26 Girl Collects Every Mosquito She's Ever Killed

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#27 My Copy Editor Father's Collection Of Worn Down Pencils

He started using them on the recommendation of one of my teachers back when I was in high school. He's got a whole box full of them. I'm not sure about the exact make, but the brand is Palomino if anyone is interested.

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#28 Brother-In-Law Has Collected Produce Stickers For Years And Turned Them Into A Ball Bigger Than The Fruit They Came From

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#29 My Friend's Extensive Pringle Collection Wall

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#30 A Year Ago, I Started Staying In And Peircing State Quarters, Instead Of Going Out And Getting In Trouble. Here Is My Collection So Far

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#31 My Uncle's Peanut Butter Collection

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#32 My Grandfather's Pencil Sharpener Collection I Inherited

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#33 2 Years Of Collecting Sea Glass

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#34 My History Teacher's Presidential PEZ Collection

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#35 This Man's Collection Of Lost Apples Varieties

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#36 Our Tire Sticker Ball Turned 6 Today

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#37 Local Pharmacy Has A Display Of Antique Medicines

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#38 My Aunt Has A Spoon Collection That Has A Tiny Spoon Collection Right Above It

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#39 I Collect Food Shaped Erasers

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#40 My Friend Has Amassed A Collection Of Over 100 Copies Of Shrek On VHS

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#41 My Grandmother's "Critter Collection" Of Corpses She Finds Dried Out Near The Pool

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#42 My Deceased Grandfather Had A Collection Of Uncirculated Sequential One-Dollar Bills From 1954

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#43 My Father-In-Law's Wine And Whiskey Collection

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#44 My Entire Bow Tie Collection, Minus The One I'm Wearing Now

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#45 This Is My Gameboy Mosaic Made Out Of Gameboy Games. Note: No Games Were Harmed And All Are Removable And Playable

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#46 The Product Of 15 Years Collecting Shedded Antlers From The Woods

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#47 A Dad's Collection Of Every Item He Pulled From A Flat Tire Over 30+ Years As An Auto Mechanic

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#48 Collection Of Unique Forks And Spoons

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#49 The Insane Amount Of Hats My Grandpa Has Collected

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#50 My Xbox 360 Collection

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#51 Marble Collection From The 1800s. All Made From Polished Semi-Precious Stones

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#52 My Collection Of Grateful Dead Cassettes

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#53 My Small Collection

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#54 This Collection Of Over 1000 Movie Tickets From The Last 30 Years

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#55 My Dad's Little Metal Detecting Museum

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#56 A Small Part Of My Vintage Camera Collection

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#57 Some Of My Favorite Arrowheads. Amazing Little Pieces Of History Collected On Our Private Property In Southern Arizona

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#58 "Al's Foreign Body Collection" At The Urgent Care Near Me

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#59 My Dice Collection

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#60 This Has Been Decorating My House For Many Years. It's A Part Of My Processors Collection. I Want To Collect At Least One Representative From Each Generation

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#61 I Collect Rocks That Look Like Eggs

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#62 I Collected Every Pair Of Shoes I Was Wearing Since 2008

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#63 I'm 14 And Here Is A Picture Of Me And My Chess Medals

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#64 A Collection Of Several Different Tablets Of Ecstasy

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#65 This Pez Dispenser Collection I Found At A Restaurant

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#66 My Dad's Friend's Collection Room

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#67 A Small Display Of My Stepfathers Lock Collection

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#68 Introducing My Bottle Opener Collection

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#69 I Collect Money From Everywhere I Travel

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#70 My Parents Collect Magnets From Every Place They Visit And Put Them On The Fridge. It's Spreading To The Microwave Now

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#71 License Plate Forest

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#72 My Collection Of Yo-Yos. Took A Few Years To Collect And A Few Hours To Organize

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#73 An Array Of Cake Pans Collected In The Lifetime Of My Late Grandmother Taken From A Roof Top

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#74 My Bottle Cap Collection. Up To 366 Different Caps So Far

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#75 My Collection Of Confiscated Prison Shanks

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#76 My Mom Collects Sand From Beaches All Over The World

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#77 I Started Feeding Bar Nuts To These Crows That Are Regular To The Patio Of A Bar I Work At. My Collection Of Gifts Finally Started After 3 Months

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#78 Heart Shaped Rocks A Friend Has Collected Over Six Years

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#79 I Work At A Tire Shop And Have Been Collecting Items Found Inside Of Customers Tires For The Past Few Years

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#80 The Only Remaining Picture Of My Childhood Star Wars Collection

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#81 Jar Of Teeth I Found In An Abandoned Dentist Office

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#82 My Bug Collection

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#83 "Family Photo" Of My Console Collection

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#84 My Granddad's Tool Collection In His Shed

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#85 Toys I Collected From My 9-Year-Old’s Pockets Over 3 Months

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#86 I Inherited My Dad's Collection Of Political Buttons

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#87 My Micro-Gadget Collection

I collect miniature palm/pocket/keychain gadgets. Depending on where I’m going, I’ll take a few of these items with me on a clip or in a pouch or pocket. I have items for travel, hiking/camping, nights out, shopping, etc. All of these miniature items are in my favorite color green. I have even more items in my collection that aren't pictured here.

1. Keyboard 2. Collapsing cup 3. Magnifying mirror 4. First aid kit 5. Folding readers 6. Traveling adapter/charger 7. Watercolor set 8. Office supplies 9. Luggage lock 10. Car escape tool 11. Bubble level 12. Hooded rain slicker 13. Monocular 14. Airpods/station 15. Hairbrush 16. Tactical pen 17. Umbrella 18. USB speaker 19. Nylon folding utensils 20. Phone stand 21. Pill case 22. Perfume atomizer 23. Strobing LED 24. Pepper spray 25. Taser 26. Household charger 27. Car charger 28. Power stick 29. Match safe 30. Personal alarm 31. Gerber Dime 32. Sewing kit 33. UV lamp (glue/gel) 34. Sphero 35. Tetris 36. Harmonica 37. Micro drone 38. Fidget cube 39. Charging cable 40. Fisher space pen 41. Thumb drive 42. Selfie trigger.

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#88 Local Tire Shop Has A Jar Full Of Various Things They’ve Found Inside Of Popped Tires

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#89 My Boombox Collection After A Few Years Of Hunting Them. In Addition To Fixing Them Up, I’ve Added Bluetooth, "Alexa", A Snes Classic And Other Weird Stuff To Some Of Them

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#90 My Collection Of Metal Detecting Finds Ranging From 1000 BC Up To The 1950's. All Found By Myself In The Past Years. I Need More Space

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#91 My Collection Of Vintage Mobile Phones, Ongoing Since 2006

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