Schlumpff Museum
"The Musée Nationale de l’Automobile in Mulhouse, otherwise known as the Schlumpff Museum has an incredible story behind it. Two brothers, Hans and Fritz Schlumpf (the name is even funnier when you know it is a direct translation of “Smurf”) were two industrialists with a passion for cars, especially Fritz. After the war, their business boomed and they were able to indulge their hobby of collecting fabulous cars; however, in the Seventies times began to get hard as the Asians started to deliver much cheaper textiles forcing the Schlumpf brothers to rein in their business. In 1976 they decided to close the Mulhouse factory, which was a terrible blow to the workers, who went on strike and occupied the factory. All normal 1970's stuff, until a group of strikers decided to break into an unused building and discovered something simply amazing. Approximately 600 cars were inside, displayed in street-like rows, with specially commissioned cast iron street lights to provide illumination. And not just any old cars, these were incredible – and approximately a quarter of the collection were Bugattis. Well over a hundred of what are essentially the most desirable cars ever built."