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Ave Maria Grotto

Cullman, Alabama

A Benedictine monk spent decades building 125 miniature landmarks from stone, shells, broken tile, and discarded objects.

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Vent Haven Museum

Fort Mitchell, Kentucky

More than 1,400 ventriloquist figures stare from the world's only museum devoted entirely to ventriloquism, creating one of Kentucky's most uncanny collections.

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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…

Giant Objects

Big Brutus

West Mineral, Kansas

An 11-million-pound electric shovel towers over the Kansas coalfields where it was abandoned as too large to move.

Historic Oddities

Rotary Jail Museum

Crawfordsville, Indiana

An 1882 jail built around a rotating drum of cells, with the entire prisoner block still able to turn behind a single doorway.

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Main Street Museum

White River Junction, Vermont

Ten thousand piano rolls are only the beginning inside a former firehouse packed with taxidermy, obsolete devices, postcards, odd collections, and artifacts that resist normal museum…

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Museum of the Weird

Austin, Texas

Mummies, strange creatures, sideshow relics, wax monsters, mysterious specimens, and dime-museum spectacle are packed above a shop on Austin's Sixth Street.

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Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum

Plainville, Connecticut

Hand-built, life-size monsters from classic horror films wait in detailed sets at America's longest-running horror attraction.

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Glore Psychiatric Museum

St. Joseph, Missouri

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

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National Mustard Museum

Middleton, Wisconsin

More than 7,000 mustards from all 50 states and over 70 countries fill a museum born from one man's post-World-Series grocery-store crisis.

Curious Landmarks

BabyLand General Hospital

Cleveland, Georgia

Costumed nurses deliver Cabbage Patch Kids from a magical tree inside an elaborate doll hospital.

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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…