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Museum of the History of Medicine in Paris, France

Museum of the History of Medicine in Paris, France

Created by Efisio Marini, an Italian naturalist doctor, this table is made completely out of human remains, including petrified brain, blood, liver, bile, lung, and glands. On the top of the table sits a foot, four ears, and a cut vertebrae. It is housed as the Museum of the History...

Laffing Sal at Playland-Not-At-The-Beach – Museum of Fun

Laffing Sal at Playland-Not-At-The-Beach – Museum of Fun

Automatons are always a bit creepy, so one can only guess why Laffing Sal was such a popular attraction at funhouses, boardwalks, amusement parks and fairs across the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. Originally mass-produced by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, this mechanical monster terrorized small...

Museo Tommaso Campailla or the Syphilis Museum

Museo Tommaso Campailla or the Syphilis Museum

Speaking of sex, I also just learned that Modica, Sicily has the Museo Tommaso Campailla or the Syphilis Museum. Wow! A whole museum devoted to a sexually transmitted disease? Well, not really. Tommaso Campailla was like the 18th century doctor of venereal diseases. The treatment of his patients (usually prostitutes)...

Grampa Jerry’s Clown Museum in Arriba, Colorado

Grampa Jerry’s Clown Museum in Arriba, Colorado

We’ve covered Clown Museums before here at This Belongs In A Museum. Not a surprise the Guinness World Record for “Largest Clown Collection” belongs to Ortys Clownmuseum in Germany. Then there’s the Klown Doll Museum in Nebraska of all places. And let’s not forget John Wayne Gacy’s clown paintings at...

Design Panoptikum in Berlin is the Creepy Industrial Museum

Design Panoptikum in Berlin is the Creepy Industrial Museum

The Design Panoptikum in Berlin is the creepy industrial museum everybody has been looking for. What appears to be an ordinary storefront on the ground floor of a grey apartment block on Torstraße is actually a bizarre collection of 3,000 historical objects and curiosities from the worlds of film, aviation,...

Clown Motel, “ghost town” of Tonopah, Nevada

Clown Motel, “ghost town” of Tonopah, Nevada

The Circus Circus Casino isn’t the only place in Nevada with a creepy clown sign. Halfway between Las Vegas and Reno is the “ghost town” of Tonopah, which although isn’t completely abandoned, is pretty close to it. Even the local cemetery has been closed for a hundred years, made up...

Lawn Sprinkler Museum by Bob Bosley

Lawn Sprinkler Museum by Bob Bosley

125 years ago today David Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii, was forced at gunpoint by the Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving America more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights. God, those Americans really hate the monarchy, don’t they? So because of this historical...

The Bread and Puppet Museum, Glover, Vermont

The Bread and Puppet Museum, Glover, Vermont

The Bread and Puppet Museum has absolutely nothing to do with bread and everything to do with creepy, traumatizing puppets. Like the nightmarish kind. Now located in a 150-year-old barn in Glover, Vermont, this giant mask and puppet collection originally breathed its first breath in New York City during the...

The Museum of the Odd – Lawrence, Kansas

The Museum of the Odd – Lawrence, Kansas

Only a few days after I told you about the Museum of Animated Carvings, we’re already back in Kansas. In the town of Lawrence, wanna-be blues musician “Honey Boy” (more like “White Boy”) Walker has filled the first floor of his home with such weird collections, including over 500 sock...

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