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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.

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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.

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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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House on the Rock

Spring Green, Wisconsin

A strange house on a rock expanded into a sprawling maze containing automated orchestras, a 200-foot sea creature, an unsupported glass corridor, and a carousel packed…

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SPAM Museum

Austin, Minnesota

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

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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…