- [Narrator] Lots of people
collect things as a hobby, and it's in no way a weird thing to do. Unless that is, you take it to the extreme
like the people on this list. Some people just don't know when to stop and others, well, they really
should've never started. I'm counting down the top 20 strangest collections in the world. Prepare to be shocked, amused, and at points totally disgusted. (chiming music) - Amazing. - [Narrator] Number 20, love dolls. It's fairly uncommon for a
person to have one love doll, but having 240 is almost unimaginable, but, Bob Gibbins shares his
home with his rubber women. Oh, and his extremely
understanding wife, Lizzie. Bob is known in the collector world as the Hugh Hefner of the love doll world, and his small bungalow has been dubbed, The Love Doll Mansion. He says he loves to have afternoon tea with his fake girlfriends, and he also enjoys dressing
them up for sexy photo shoots. What must the neighbors think? Number 19, toe nail clippings. If you're eating, you may wanna look away because this collection is pretty gross. Richard Gibson of Louisiana
collects his toe nail clippings, and he's been adding the
nails to a jar since 1978. He keeps his prized possession
on a shelf in his home, which I'm sure all his
house guests must love. His collection isn't the
largest of its kind though, there's actually another one with a stomach churning 30,000 clippings. Thankfully, this collection
is for medical purposes and is being used in
studies on prostate cancer. Number 18, navel fluff. Don't start eating again just yet, this one's pretty gross too. You know that mysterious bellybutton fluff that sometimes appears? Well, Graham Barker collects it. He's careful to state that he
only collects his own though, if you were worrying that he's delving into other people's navels. The collection dates back to 1984 and Graham says he seldom
misses a day's harvest. Number 17, hot sauce. Are you one of those
people that takes hot sauce with them everywhere? If so, you might understand Vic Clinco's incredible collection of 6,000
bottles of that spicy stuff. The collection has taken 17 years to amass and it lines the walls
of his Arizona home. His most expensive bottle
is a $900 one of a kind, and he also owns a bottle
of the worlds hottest sauce, the Caldera 16 Mil. Vic actually made a career
out of his love of spice. He classes himself as an educator, and runs his own heat
tolerance competition where contestants regularly
pass out or throw up. How charming. Number 16, traffic cones. From hot and spicy, straight
to the glamorous world of traffic cone collecting. This is one wild ride, huh? David Morgan from England has
137 different traffic cones hidden away in his home. That's around two-thirds of all the types that were ever made. David says he feels sorry for the cones that have been forgotten,
so he brings them home, cleans them, and puts them in his garage so they aren't damaged by light. David says that people tend to
avoid him at dinner parties. I have no idea why. Number 15, bras. It's probably only women
that avoid Chen Qingzu, due to the fact that he
just loves collecting bras. Chen from China has more than 5,000 bras, which he's collected
over a 20 year period. His collection is made
up of bras from students of more than 30 colleges and universities, which makes the entire
thing a little more suspect, but Chen seems to have ethical
reasons for his collection. His dream is to open a bra museum, to increase awareness of breast health, or at least that's what
he's telling the ladies that send him their bras. Number 14, stones. If you thought collecting
traffic cones was dull, how about stones? It was the sixties when Italian
poet and artist Luigi Lineri found himself drawn to the stones in the shallows of the river Adige. Luigi categorizes his
collection by the shapes that he sees in them,
such as human profiles, animal heads, and work tools. He doesn't know how many
stones make up his collection, but he says that the
collection is significant. Looking at his workshop, that may well be the understatement of the century. Number 13, wasps' nests. Most people tend try
and avoid wasps' nests, but not Terry Prouty, he loves the things! So much so, in fact, that he's been collecting
them for 25 years. Oklahoma resident,
Terry, became fascinated with wasps while he was growing up, and he now collects their nests. Terry, who calls himself Hornet Boy, buys most of his nests online, and has spent up to $200
for good quality ones. He firmly believes that the
public isn't as well educated on wasps as they should be, and that the wasp has been
unfairly given a bad name. What do you think? Let me
know down in the comments. Number 12, potato chips
shaped as weird things. I love potato chips, but usually I'm cramming them
into my mouth so quickly, that I don't notice what shape they are. That's not the case with
Myrtle Young, though. She takes her time with her chips and saves the ones that form weird shapes. Well, in fact, she worked
as a potato chip inspector and siphoned off all the
ones with interesting shapes. There's a dog's head, a pair
of mittens and a butterfly, as well as a pair of
near-identical cowboy boots. Myrtle's collection soon
caught the attention of the national media, and
David Letterman himself said that he was impressed by
her potato chip mouse. Go, Myrtle! Number 11, nicotine gumball. Barry Chappel is the owner of the world's largest ABC gumball. Any guesses as to what ABC means? Well, disgustingly, it stands
for already been chewed. Gross, huh? Barry was a heavy smoker and had his brainwave to start a gumball when he was on an international flight. Not being able to smoke, Barry started chewing nicotine
gum to satisfy his cravings. Perhaps the altitude of the
flight sent him a little loopy, because that day he started his collection of 95,200 pieces of gum. The gumball now weighs 175 pounds, and brilliantly, Barry
doesn't smoke anymore. Number ten, banana stickers. You know those stickers
that come on bananas? Well, Becky Martz enjoys them so much that she collects them and
has over 7,000 unique labels. Becky's story begins like every epic tale, when she was putting
bananas in her fruit bowl, she noticed the different labels and wondered how many
others might be out there. Magical. Number nine, nails. Thankfully, this time I'm
not talking about toe nails, I'm talking about actual nails for DIY. Richard Jones, from Wales, has
a collection of 3,000 nails, gathered from all over the
world over the past 50 years. He says that a lot of people
think nails are boring, but he's changed lot of people's minds. The jury's still out for me, I'm afraid. Number eight, milk bottles. You'd think a former
milkman would have had his fill of milk bottles while on the job, but not Paul Luke. He loves the things, and has been collecting them since he was nine. More than 20 years have passed but Paul shows no sign of giving up. He's aiming to increase his collection of 10,000 different bottles. Number seven, Super Soakers. The award for the most
fun collection on the list has to go to this guy. Imagine summers at Chris Reid's house, the water fights would be epic! Chris has 240 unique
designs in his collection, including one that's signed by Super Soaker inventor
Lonnie Johnson himself. Chris, if you're watching this, can I come over to play
with your collection please? Number six, erasers. This collection might seem
slightly less exciting than my last entry, but
the sheer volume of it is frankly incredible. Petra Engels owns almost 20,000 erasers. She's been collecting them for years and has designs from more
than 100 different countries. Like stationary collections? Angelika Unverhau from Germany
has the largest collection of ballpoint pens and Tushar
Lakhanpal has the most pencils. I wonder how large his pencil case is. Number five, air sickness bags. If you fancy checking out
some of the best sick bags, there's an online virtual museum set up for your viewing pleasure. There are currently 2,000
examples on display, and if that wasn't enough, there's also bus sickness bags and even space sickness bags, but don't all air sickness
bags look the same? I hear you asking. Nope, some are actually quite artistic. In fact, Virgin Atlantic even held a Design for Chunks project in 2004, where artists submitted
their artwork in the hope of having it featured on
their limited edition bags. Number four, soviet calculators. With some of the collections
I can't help but wonder where the inspiration from them came from, and Sergei Frolov's soviet
calculator collection is definitely one of those. It just seems so specific! As well as 150 soviet made calculators, Sergei is also the proud owner of lots of vintage computers,
watches and slide rules. I'd recommend you check out
Sergei's YouTube channel once you finish watching this video, it's pretty interesting. Number three, do not disturb signs. Now this is a collection
I can get on board with. I hate being disturbed,
but clearly not as much as Jean-Francois Vernetti
from Switzerland. He's collected an unbelievable 11,111 different do not disturb signs from hotels in 189 countries. Wait, if these signs are
all technically stolen, should I be telling you about this guy? My bad. Number two, yo-yos. Florida resident, Dr. John Meisenheimer, may be a grown up, but
he's clearly a kid at heart if his collection is anything to go by. Dr. John has a collection
of more than 10,000 yo-yos, which has earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. One of his toys dates back to
the late eighteenth century, and another is as tall as a person and was delivered by forklift. John isn't only known
for his yo-yo collection. He's also featured on
Ripley's Believe it or Not, for swimming half a mile
with his foot in his mouth and is an award winning novelist. What a guy. Number one, one cent coins. In at number one is Otha
Anders, a Louisiana resident who knows that if you
take care of the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves. Otha has been collecting
one cent coins for 45 years and his final haul contained
over half a million of them. He's never been tempted to sell them because they remind him to stay thankful. So much so, in fact, that
if he saw one on the ground in a store or at a petrol station, he would stop and say a prayer. He only cashed in his pennies when his home insurance
stopped covering them, and what a payday it was,
they totaled more than $5000 and it took the bank five
hours to process them. Cashing them in was a smart choice, but I kind of wish he'd gone down the same route as He Peiqi and created this incredible
model of his home town. To each their own though, I suppose. So which collection do you
think is the strangest? Are there any that you're jealous of? Let me know your thoughts in
the comment section down below, and thanks for watching. (soft bouncy electronic music)
