Some do it out of loyalty to their team, town, or country, others might be driven by the prestige that comes with ownership; either way, people like to collect. And the fields they’re interested in can be interesting, to say the least.

So in order to show you just how cool, strange, and even creepy this hobby can be, we at Bored Panda put together a list of the most unique collections we could find on the internet. From pharmacy pills to exit signs, and beyond, continue scrolling to check out the stashes.

#1 Authentic Geological Map Of Scotland

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#2 My Local Pharmacy Has This Huge Container Of Random Pills

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#3 All The Whiskers That I’ve Collected Over The Years From My Two Cats That Either Broke Off Or Naturally Fell Out

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#4 “What We Find In Your Tires”

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#5 These Are Most Of The Exit And Fire Safety Signs I Collected Over The Past 2 Years

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#6 My Dad’s Banjo Collection

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#7 Helped My Mom Unpack Her Uranium Glass Collection And Install UV Lights

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#8 After Years Of Collecting, Problems With Arcade Bylaws, And A Pandemic, I’ve Finally Quit My Career In It And Opened A Pinball Arcade

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#9 This Collection Of Glass Eyeballs At The Deutsches Museum, Munich

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#10 Yes, You Can Collect Antique Traffic Signals. My Oldest Dates Back To The Mid-1920s

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#11 My Father-In-Law Just Moved To A New House. His Record Collection Required Its Own Move And Two Trucks

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#12 My Collection Of LEGO Pokémon I’ve Built

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#13 My Parents Kept All My Teeth After They Fell Out

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#14 My Wall Mounted Rotary Phone Collection

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#15 I Collect Vintage Pokémon Food Products

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#16 My Coleus Collection

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#17 Void Punch Collection From The DMV. One Day’s Worth Of Voided IDs vs. Years Of Collecting

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#18 Fake IDs Confiscated In A College Town

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#19 Anyone Here Collects Vintage Monster Masks? Here Is A Small Bit Of My Collection

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#20 I Spent 4 Years Trying To Grow Salt Cubes At Home. Here Are The Largest And Most Transparent Crystals I’ve Managed To Grow So Far

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#21 Rooftop Next To A Schoolyard

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#22 It Just Makes Me Happy To See Things That Are Kind Of “Proof” That I Have Lived, Even If It’s Something As Silly And Seemingly Insignificant As Tea Stubs

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#23 My Collection So Far

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#24 I Got Sober During Covid, So All Of My AA Meetings Have Been By Zoom. My Chips Are Mostly A Random Collection Of Round Objects I’ve Found On My Daily Walks. I Just Celebrated 7 Months

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#25 My 9-Year-Old Nephew Has Found Over 1500 “Lucky” Four-Leaf Clovers And Keeps Them In A Big Binder

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#26 My Grandpa’s Vintage Prank Toy Collection

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#27 This Car Is Full Of Bumper Stickers That Say Bumper Sticker

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#28 Abandoned Collection Of Over 175 Classic Cars In North London

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#29 McDonald’s Permanently Closing In Russia Caused This Person To Collect Quite An Unusual Stash

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#30 All The Cell Phones I’ve Found In Rivers

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#31 Years Ago I Told My Mom That I Liked To Collect Coins. Unfortunately, She Passed Recently, And Upon Cleaning Her House, I Found This

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#32 Over The Years, I’ve Collected Other People’s Collections That Have Been Thrown Away. Anything People Collect Will Be In These Boxes, Including The Boxes And Drawers

I worked in a rubbish dump for 15 years. 

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#33 56 Mirrors And Counting. About 2 Years Worth Of Thrifting

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#34 This Collection Of Rubber Ducks

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#35 Some People Collect Stamps, Others Collect Fancy Cars. I Collect Thrift Store Ski Jackets. Here Are Some Of My Favorite Finds

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#36 Does The Folder Go Into The Fridge?

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#37 My Massive Taco Bell Hat Collection Is All In One Room, Including A Bunch Of Super Rare Ones

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#38 This Man’s Collection Of Lost Apple Varieties

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#39 These Layers Are The Seeds I Collected Last Year. They Show A Timeline Of When Different Flowers Grow In My Garden

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#40 My Seed Collection. All Different Vegetable Seeds. 181 In Total And Still Growing

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#41 My Grandpa Kept Almost All Of The Rabies Tags From His Dogs

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#42 My Office Has Been Collecting Used Staples For Years

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#43 This What I Vaped In 7 Years: 556 Bottles, 3336€, 5.56 Liters. Happy I Quit

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#44 What An Impressive Tie Collection He Must Have Had

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#45 Evolution Of My Parents’ Cell Phones, Found While Cleaning Up For Their Move

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#46 A Collection Of Little Monster Toys I’ve Made

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#47 Mom Sent Me This Photo Of Our Family’s Mobile Phone Museum

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#48 My Hand-Painted Food Rocks

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#49 Since My Flatmates Got Into Hot Sauces, Things Got A Bit Out Of Control

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#50 My Dad Keeps A Pill Bottle With 90% Alcohol In It To Fatally Poison Ticks (And Collect Them)

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#51 January Sea Glass Haul. I May Have A Problem

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#52 A Person In My Town Has A Lot Of Railroad Lights, And Yes One Of Them Works When You Walk In Front Of It

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#53 In The Year 2000, Aged 13, I Was Immensely Proud Of My Simpsons Collection

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#54 My Coworker Has A Collection Binder Of Different Sauce Packets

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#55 My Collection Of (Mostly) Vintage Uranium Glass

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#56 I Don’t Throw Away My Old Phones. Starting To Get A Solid Collection

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#57 My Wife Has Diligently Kept A Journal Everyday Since 2000

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#58 My Dice Collection

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#59 Tools Of My Trade (Hand Embroidery) Turned Into A Small Collection

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#60 My Entire Plant Pin Collection To Date

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#61 Old Tobacco Tins Discovered In Abandoned Mines

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#62 A Small Collection Of Completed Wood Carvings For My Seed Asylum Series

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#63 My Orange Fridge Magnets Collection

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#64 My Collection Of Birds Wearing Band T-Shirts With Linocut Prints

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#65 Found An Absolutely Absurd Amount Of More Than 30-Year-Old Cans In The Attic Above My Garage

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#66 My 94-Year-Old Grandpa Is Showing Us His Ice Cream Tub Collection

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#67 My Random Collection Of Vintage Labels

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#68 Collecting All The Homies

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#69 My Dad Passed Away Last Year, And I Was Finally Able To Gather All Of This And Make This Tribute To His 37-Year Career At Kmart

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#70 I Collect Pens Like Reasonable People Collect Knives

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#71 These Tiny Shells, Each Labeled With Type, Date Collected And Where. Part Of A Massive Multigenerational Shell Collection I’m Sorting Through

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#72 I Collect Lily Shoes For Bound Feet. Book For Scale

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#73 Collection Of Ethically Sourced Whiskers From My Cat

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#74 My Collection Of Old Snake Bite Kits

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#75 I’m Painting A Collection Of Memes. Here’s The Progress So Far

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#76 Private Toilet Tank Lid Collection

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#77 My Multilingual Calvin & Hobbes Collection

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#78 A Pizza Table Collection I’ve Stacked Up Over The Years Of Pizza Purchases

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#79 The Amount Of Lost Earbuds My Boyfriend Found Today On One Commercial Plane

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#80 My Mother’s Santa Claus Collection

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#81 My Sister Bought Me Some Condoms To Contribute To My Collection

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#82 My Parents’ Bell Collection

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#83 My Boyfriend Owns An Entire Fleet Of Vintage School Buses

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#84 Collection Of Old Hearing Aid Devices At My Audiologist’s Office

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#85 My Collection Of Shopping Lists I’ve Found Over A Few Years While Working At A Grocery Store

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#86 All These Hair Ties Underneath A Rollercoaster

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#87 This Large Collection Of Nerf Toys At An Estate Sale

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#88 My Collection Showing The Evolution Of Portable Data Storage Over The Past 45 Years

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#89 Who Else Collects Their Cats’ Whiskers?

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#90 Two Of My Canadian License Plate Collection Items Don’t Reflect Light

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#91 A Collection Of Stuff I’ve Found On Daily Walks Through My Neighborhood In The Last Year Or So

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#92 My Local Indie Video Store Has An Entire Section Dedicated To Films With Famous Sandwich Scenes

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#93 Fake Credit Cards And Checks I’ve Collected Since January

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#94 Found Four Bags Of Someone’s Hotel Soap Collection

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#95 A Little Bit Of My Mom’s Uranium Glass Collection

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#96 My Whole Military Collection Consists Of Items From Vietnam, WW2, The Cold War, And The Civil War

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#97 My Mobile Phone Collection From 1997 To 2009

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#98 My Girlfriend Wanted A Picture Of Her Plush Dolls While We Were Organizing Her Collection

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#99 My Entire Fast Food Ash Tray Collection

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#100 Things Thrift Stores Find In Donated Books

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