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House of Frankenstein Wax Museum

Lake George

A monster-filled wax museum with animatronic scares on Lake George’s main street.

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Zwaanendael Merman

Lewes, Delaware

A shriveled monkey-fish sideshow creature waits inside a Dutch-style Delaware museum.

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The Corvette Museum Sinkhole

Bowling Green, Kentucky

A hidden void opened beneath a car museum before dawn, ripping a 30-foot-deep hole through the Skydome floor and swallowing eight Corvettes.

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Grotto of the Redemption

West Bend, Iowa

Built from millions of gemstones, fossils, and minerals gathered from around the world, the Grotto of the Redemption is one of the largest man-made grottos on…

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Louisiana Prison Museum

Angola, Louisiana

Beside the gates of a massive maximum-security prison, this museum preserves the Red Hat cellblock story and Louisiana's bizarre era of a traveling electric chair.

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Salt Museum

Liverpool, New York

An entire museum devoted to the brine and salt works that shaped Syracuse.

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American Museum of Tort Law

Winsted, Connecticut

Ralph Nader founded a museum about lawsuits, featuring a Corvair, dangerous products, and the cases that changed everyday safety.

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Ripley’s Ocean City

Ocean City, Maryland

A giant shark appears to crash through the Ocean City Boardwalk building that houses shrunken heads, odd artifacts, strange art, and hundreds of exhibits designed around…

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National Museum of Funeral History

Houston, Texas

More than 30,000 square feet of hearses, caskets, embalming equipment, mourning objects, and funeral-industry history make death the main attraction at this Houston museum.

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Devil’s Rope Museum

McLean, Texas

A former factory in McLean contains an entire museum devoted to barbed wire, with fencing tools, wire variations, ranching history, and enough sharp metal to justify…

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Wolf Park

Battle Ground, Indiana

A research and education park where guided visits bring guests close to wolves, foxes, and bison in spacious habitats.

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Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum

Gibsland, Louisiana

A former cafe tied to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's final hours holds ambush artifacts, a death-car replica, and the story of the roadside trap waiting…