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Strange Museums

Glore Psychiatric Museum

St. Joseph, Missouri

Historic equipment, patient-made objects, and displays trace changing approaches to mental health care.

Strange Museums

Salt & Pepper Shaker Museum

Gatlinburg, Tennessee

More than 20,000 sets of salt and pepper shakers fill a museum devoted to proving that even the most ordinary objects can become completely unhinged in…

Curious Landmarks

Very Large Array

Socorro, New Mexico

Twenty-seven giant radio dishes move across a remote desert plain.

Strange Museums

SPAM Museum

Austin, Minnesota

A free museum turns Minnesota's famous canned meat into an interactive pop-culture spectacle.

Historic Oddities

Havre Beneath the Streets

Havre, Montana

After a devastating fire, Havre's businesses operated beneath the streets.

Curious Landmarks

Paper House

Rockport, Massachusetts

A mechanical engineer turned layers of old newspaper into walls, chairs, desks, and even a grandfather clock inside this astonishing Cape Ann house.

Curious Landmarks

Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky

Raleigh, North Carolina

A turf-covered stone chamber in an art museum park works as a walk-in camera obscura, projecting an upside-down image of the outside world onto its interior.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Rubik’s Cube

Knoxville, Tennessee

A ten-foot-tall, 1,200-pound Rubik's Cube created for the 1982 World's Fair now sits inside the Knoxville Convention Center like a puzzle for giants.

Roadside Attractions

Enchanted Highway

Gladstone, North Dakota

A lonely county road crosses the North Dakota prairie past enormous geese, grasshoppers, pheasants, deer, fish, and a towering family built from scrap metal.

Curious Landmarks

Hole N” The Rock

Moab, Utah

A 5,000-square-foot home with fourteen rooms, a fireplace, shelves, and furniture was blasted and carved directly into a giant sandstone cliff south of Moab.

Historic Oddities

Seattle Underground

Seattle, Washington

Beneath modern Pioneer Square lies a buried layer of old Seattle, where former sidewalks, storefronts, and first floors survive below the streets used today.

Strange Museums

Museum of Death

New Orleans, Louisiana

Coffins, skulls, morgue photography, mortician tools, body bags, and serial-killer correspondence fill a museum that makes death the entire subject instead of a side exhibit.