Taxidermy

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.