Strange Science

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.