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Take a Virtual Tour of One Man's Strange World of Stuffed Animals
Walter Potter, Victorian taxidermist, transformed a preservation profession into peculiar art.
San Antonio, Texas
Buckhorn Saloon and Museum
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
taxidermy
Hemingway's Family Is Getting Some Antlers Back 52 Years After Hunter S. Thompson Stole Them
A wrong will be righted.
abandoned
A Whirlwind Tour of Space Race Relics
Places left behind by Americans and Soviets in the race to the stars.
taxidermy
Game Wardens Seized A Fully-Stuffed Polar Bear From An Oklahoma Airport
It had been killed legally.
Gothenburg, Sweden
Malm Whale
One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.
Permanently Closed
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Maxwell Blade’s Odditorium and Curiosities Museum
An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.
Elko, Nevada
White King
The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.
cemeteries
A Night and a Day in Tonopah, Nevada
An adventure through Nevada's historic mining town, featuring the world-famous Clown Motel, a miner's graveyard, and a forest of cars.
taxidermy
The Eccentric Father of Early American Taxidermy Practiced on Ben Franklin's Cat
Charles Willson Peale befriended the founding fathers and started the first U.S. natural history museum, among other accomplishments.
Permanently Closed
Queens, New York
Cypress Hills Taxidermy Studio
One of the last taxidermists in New York City.
Tampa, Florida
Dysfunctional Grace Art Co.
An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.
taxidermy
The Hungarian Taxidermist Who Saw Frogs As People
Ferenc Mere's passion lives on as Froggyland, a museum full of anthropomorphic amphibians.
Permanently Closed
Seattle, Washington
Belfry Oddities
A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Bao tang Dong vat (Hanoi Zoological Museum)
A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.
Sibiu, Romania
The "August von Spiess" Museum of Hunting
Packed to the ceiling with antique taxidermy and hunting arms.
Paxton, Nebraska
Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge
What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.
Split, Croatia
Froggyland
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
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