A traditional Chinese opera actress wearing a face shield poses for a picture during Lunar New Year celebrations in Bangkok, Thailand, February 12, 2021. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)

A woman lies to pose for her souvenir picture on the glass sightseeing platform on Shilin Gorge in Beijing, China, May 27, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

The Spanking. (Photo by Vika Valter/Getty Images)

A man stands on an old train of Bolivian Railways Company from 1870-1900 at the train cemetery in Uyuni, Potosi, Bolivia on May 16, 2018. (Photo by David Mercado/Reuters)

Three female friends dancing in nightclub. (Photo by Cultura Creative (RF)/Alamy Stock Photo )

People walk next to of the pantheon of the Marquesa de San Juan de Nieva, chosen as the best tomb sculpture of Spain in a Spanish magazine this week, in the municipal cemetery of La Carriona in Aviles, northern Spain, October 29, 2015. Catholics will mark All Saints' Day on Sunday by visiting cemeteries and graves of deceased relatives and friends. (Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

There are many types of collections. Some are formed by purposefully collecting certain objects, such as stamps or coins. However, some collections are only a byproduct of an obsession, a quirk of mind. For example, Paul Brockmann got into the habit of buying his girlfriend and later his wife a dress every time they went ballroom dancing. It might seem excessive to some, but it was his way of showing his affection. Overtime, this collection grew to be enormous, counting 55,000 dresses in total. Basic math tells us that either they went ballroom dancing three times per day for every day of their lives, or he bought them in huge bundles every time.

People skate through the forest at Domaine de la Foret Perdu or the Lost Forest, a 15km weaving and zambonied forest trail made for skating in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, near Three Rivers, Quebec January 29, 2017. (Photo by Christinne Muschi/Reuters)