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Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Zoological Museum
The Natural History Museum that time forgot.
Cairo, Egypt
Agricultural Museum of Cairo
A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.
Paris, France
The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Woolaroc
An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.
Bournemouth, England
Bournemouth Natural Science Society
Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.
Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland
Frog Museum
150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.
Permanently Closed
Bagley, Minnesota
Bagley Wildlife Museum
The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.
Abita Springs, Louisiana
Abita Mystery House
A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.
Nantes, France
Nantes' Natural History Museum
Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.
Lawrence, Kansas
Comanche, Survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.
Bologna, Italy
Bologna Zoological Museum
This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.
mummies
Notes From the Field: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
Moab, Utah
Hole N" the Rock
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Permanently Closed
Los Angeles, California
Venice Beach Freakshow
The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.
Paris, France
Julien Aurouze and Co.
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Haarlem, Netherlands
Teylers Museum
Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.
Austin, Texas
Uncommon Objects
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Rio Vista, California
Foster's Big Horn
Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.
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