"Desperate Housewives" star Jesse Metcalfe has a quirky hobby - he collects stuffed animals.

When he's not flexing his muscles on the small screen, the chiseled star scours thrift stores and flea markets for dead creatures.

Metcalfe tells OK! magazine, "I collect antique pieces, taxidermy - a wild Russian boar, a ram, a waterbuck, a peacock that's perched on my mantle. They're incredible."