Obsessed collectors

In different parts of our planet are people who are united by an all-consuming passion for collecting bizarre and original items. Someone collects bras or shoes, someone - a wall clock, tin boxes or folding pictures - puzzle.

Some avid collectors belong to the creative professions, in particular, are artists or craftsmen. Other people - just enthusiasts of the business, will be located on a small area of ​​private houses and apartments than a thousand dear to their heart of things: from soft toys to souvenirs and clothing with the theme of "Star Wars" or a comic book about Superman.

Some collectors are obsessed to replenish their collections over time turn a hobby into a profession by opening their homes to these museums, but the most unusual collection is awarded the right to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

We offer you some photos of the collectors on the background of their country, sometimes eerie collection.

Herbert Chavez poses in the image of Clark Kent, "Smallville" series hero - adapted for TV version of the comic book Superman

Herbert Chavez from Calamba in the Philippine province of Laguna gathered a huge number of different gift items associated with Superman, including wearing superhero, miniature figurines, posters, statues of life-size, and other items.

In order to get to some exhibits its vast collection stored in the house of a collector in Singapore, Jiang Yanyu has to stand on a stool

Jiang Yan from Singapore began collecting dolls even as a teenager. He never paid any attention to the widespread belief that collecting dolls are only interested in the weak half of humanity. Today, Jiang Yan is the owner of nine thousand dolls, six thousand of which are popular in the world of Barbie dolls.

Unusual balcony Etanisa Gonzalez in the Venezuelan capital caused consternation among neighbors artist

The popular artist from Venezuela Etanis González put a huge amount of creepy dolls on her balcony in Caracas.

Andrea Rojas posing against the backdrop of his collection of dolls at home in the city of Heredia, a few kilometers north of San Jose, the capital,

A resident of Costa Rica Andrea Rojas also collects dolls. In its collection they had accumulated more than four and a half thousand.

London home of Margaret Tyler turned into a sanctuary of the British royal family. The hostess in the living room surrounded by his treasures

a staunch royalist Margaret Tyler thirty years has gathered the world's largest collection of memorabilia related to the British royal family: the dishes, figurines, books, magazines, pictures, posters, photographs, etc. In total, the collection of Margaret Tyler.. today has ten thousand names.

Li Tao wipes the dust from the old clock in the museum belonging to it

Li Tao Chinese people belong to the old clock museum in Shenyang city in north-eastern China's Liaoning province. Li Tao became interested in watches and watch movements in childhood under the influence of his father. Today the collection Li Tao has five and a half thousand objects, many of which have not only artistic but also historical importance.

An impressive collection of Yvette Darden took all the living space of her house in the Grand Halle in eastern Belgium, so the owners had to buy another additional building

A pensioner from Belgium Yvette Darden gathered at his home for more than fifty-five thousand old metal boxes. Unusual exhibits of various shapes and sizes with lids and lithographic images are a reflection of the different historical periods and events.

Zhang Dathan posing with one of his collection of valuable exhibits

Apartment Beijing China Zhang Dathan citizen packed with an incredible amount of handsets.

Jordan Michael Geller on the background line of sneakers Air Jordan Retro, Nike specially designed by basketball legend Michael Jordan

The American Jordan Michael Geller in Las Vegas gathered the largest collection of Nike shoe company, opened on the Las Vegas in Nevada, the world's first museum of sneakers "ShoeZeum". In 2013, Heller collection, comprising more than two and a half thousand pairs, was entered in the Guinness Book of Records.

Xe Peytsi next to his unique work of

Patient artist and collector Peytsi Hye, who lives in the city of Chongqing in central China, to create the most accurate reduced copy of their city. The man took about fifty thousand coins of different types, including the already obsolete, a huge number of colored stones for the decoration of the streets and a chopsticks, with the help of which the artist was building his creation.

Yuri Kreshkov and his collection of bottles

Kievlyanin Jury Kreshkov twenty years gathered about three thousand empty bottles of alcoholic beverages, by placing his unusual collection in a small two-room apartment.

Gina Lacuna collects a puzzle for his museum in Tagatay

The owner of a small business selling children's clothes Gina Lacuna from Tagaytay in Cavite province on the Philippine island of Luzon in fifty kilometers from Manila gathered 473 puzzle.

Celine Cornet with a toy panda in his home in HACCP

A collection of pandas, owned by an elderly married couple Celine and Andre Cornet of the Belgian city of HACCP, has two thousand two hundred delightful soft toys. The first toy appeared the couple back in 1978. According to the decision of the spouses, after the death of the collection will go to sick children.

Emeline duault posing against the backdrop of his spotty collection at his home in Saint-Omer in northern France

The French model Emeline duault for more than seven years, collects toy cows. To date, the girl belongs to an extensive collection consisting of 1,679 items, which include soft toys, cups, slippers, magnets, trinkets and other little things that are "cow" symbols.

Chen Jingzhi attended lectures for more than thirty schools throughout the country, which tells the girl that wearing incorrect linen increases the risk of disease. After the lectures, the girl willingly give their bras collector

A resident of the resort town of Sanya, on the southern island of Hainan in China, Chen Jingzhi assembled a very unusual collection consisting of five thousand women's bras. By its actions, the collector is trying to attract public attention to this terrible cancer, like breast cancer.

A collection of stones Luigi Liner

The Italian Luigi Lehner, who lives on the banks of the river Adige near Verona devotes his free time collecting stones that the river water have given some distinctive and easily recognizable shape, for example, fish head, or a human face. In a home studio 79-year-old liner are already tens of thousands of stones. "I'm not even going to consider them, but their number is enormous," - says the collector.

James Burns and his collection of souvenirs with the logo of "Star Wars"

Love the TV series "Star Wars" has made the Englishman James Burns is not just the owner of a large and diverse collection of objects with symbols of the beloved film. Thanks to its unusual hobby, he met new friends. "I met with a lot of great people around the world. I am happy to belong to such a wonderful community of like-minded people, - he said. - With this nothing can compare. "