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Museum of Sex

New York, New York

Museum of Sex

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

America's Most Wanted studio
Permanently Closed

Washington, D.C.

National Museum of Crime and Punishment

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

Warren Anatomical Museum
Permanently Closed

Boston, Massachusetts

Warren Anatomical Museum

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Audra Kunkle mounts some specimens in a workspace above the store.
Permanently Closed

San Francisco, California

Loved to Death

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Cabazon's T-rex dressed up for Valentine's Day

Cabazon, California

Cabazon Dinosaurs

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Bottom of the station

Los Angeles, California

Angels Flight

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Necromance
Permanently Closed

Los Angeles, California

Necromance

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

From their website: view of the store as you walk in.

Pasadena, California

Gold Bug

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Dapper Cadaver

Madison, Wisconsin

Dapper Cadaver

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Musée Mécanique

San Francisco, California

Musée Mécanique

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Cat with a "mousicle," a frozen block of dead mice.
Permanently Closed

Rosamond, California

The Cat House

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Castello di Amorosa

Calistoga, California

Castello di Amorosa

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Sea lions off of Forbes island. (Creative Commons)
Permanently Closed

San Francisco, California

Forbes Island

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

View of the ruins from the hillside. The original stairs would have come down on the far left. The curved edge of the original aquarium and the outline of the diving well are on the right.

San Francisco, California

Ruins of the Sutro Baths

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Byron Hot Springs Hotel

Byron, California

Byron Hot Springs Hotel

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Foster's Big Horn

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.

The Cow Bones of Mount Diablo

Alamo, California

The Cow Bones of Mount Diablo

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

Winchester Mystery House, with some of its many doors and windows.

San Jose, California

The Winchester Mystery House

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

View from the street
Permanently Closed

San Francisco, California

Defenestration

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

East Bay Vivarium

Berkeley, California

East Bay Vivarium

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

The Bone Room
Permanently Closed

Albany, California

The Bone Room

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Mazzariello Labyrinth

Oakland, California

Mazzariello Labyrinth

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Old Trapper's Lodge Statues

Los Angeles, California

Old Trapper's Lodge Statues

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

Concrete building at the abandoned Murphy Ranch.

Los Angeles, California

Rustic Canyon's Murphy Ranch

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

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