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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

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.

Curious Landmarks

The Heidelberg Project

Detroit, Michigan

An ordinary Detroit block transformed into a sprawling outdoor art environment built from color, salvaged objects, and neighborhood history.

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.

Strange Museums

World’s Oldest Ham

Smithfield, Virginia

A ham cured in 1902 became a local celebrity, acquired a brass collar, traveled to exhibitions, and now spends retirement inside a museum with its own…

Curious Landmarks

Mars Desert Research Station

Hanksville, Utah

In the Utah desert, crews live inside a white cylindrical habitat, wear simulated spacesuits, grow plants, drive rovers, and practice living on Mars without leaving Earth.