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29.6912, -91.2097
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35.7596, 139.7077
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43.1415, -80.2643
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South San Francisco, California
Wind Harp
A large instrument played by the wind.
37.6541, -122.3873
Chicago, Illinois
International Museum of Surgical Science
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
41.9101, -87.6268
Maisons-Alfort, France
Musée Fragonard
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
48.8005, 2.4356
Vienna, Austria
Clock Museum
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
48.2108, 16.3693
San Francisco, California
The Wave Organ
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
37.8085, -122.4401
Paris, France
Deyrolle Taxidermy
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
48.8563, 2.3263
Paris, France
Musée des Arts et Métiers
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
48.8666, 2.3555
Anniston, Alabama
Anniston Museum
A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.
33.6961, -85.8158
Paris, France
Musée Dupuytren
Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.
48.8508, 2.3412
Pomona, California
The Southern California Medical Museum
A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.
34.0563, -117.7499
Baltimore, Maryland
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.
39.3119, -76.5968
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mütter Museum
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
39.9535, -75.1768
London, England
Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
51.5050, -0.0887
Brooklyn, New York
Broken Angel
An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.
40.6856, -73.9613
Chandigarh, India
Nek Chand Saini’s Rock Garden
A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.
30.7529, 76.8065
Zurich, Switzerland
Moulagenmuseum
Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.
47.3805, 8.5486
Pisa, Italy
Museum of Human Anatomy
Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.
43.7204, 10.3950
Cambridge, Massachusetts
MIT Museum: Arthur Ganson
Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.
42.3618, -71.0977
Houston, Texas
Beer Can House
Beer lover's can-covered house.
29.7638, -95.4190
Sydney, Australia
Museum of Human Disease
Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.
-33.9177, 151.2347
Simi Valley, California
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."
34.2795, -118.7046
Calipatria, California
Salvation Mountain
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
33.2542, -115.4727
Chartres, France
La Maison Picassiette
A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.
48.4417, 1.5066
Loveland, Ohio
Harry Andrews' Chateau Laroche
A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.
39.2837, -84.2657
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