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Hunting and Taxidermy
The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest
The Bagley Wildlife Museum is a jam-packed ark of a place, an extravagant monument to nature's fertility. This collection long ago outgrew the front window of a shoe store and now occupies half of... »
Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by MattB, Dylan and others
A museum of unusual and unexpected collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator
John Preble, a Louisiana painter, has picked up just about every rock, bottle, and license plate he has passed. Inspired by the Tinkertown Museum in New Mexico, he put it all together in the Abita... »
Outsider Art, Hunting and Taxidermy, Outsider Architecture | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, michelle and others
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises
The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik bills itself as “probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found... »
Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by Josh
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of cryptid specimens
Loren Coleman first started pursuing unusual, often inexplicable animals in 1960, and has since become one of the world's foremost experts in the field of cryptozoology. The discipline, as... »
Fascinating Fauna, Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Natural History, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Strange Statues, Intriguing Environs | Edited by littlebrumble, wythe and others
Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved
On June 25, 1876 the five companies of the US 7th Cavalry under the command of Gen. George Armstrong Custer were annihilated by a force of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne at the Battle of the Little... »
Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by afgustaf and Kalia_K
This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos
Today, arguments are often framed as science vs. religion, empiricism vs. spirituality, but not so long ago it was quite normal for science and religion to live side by side, in both buildings and... »
Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Natural History, Hunting and Taxidermy, Instruments of Science | Edited by
Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse
Founded in 1893, the Buckhorn Exchange displays antique weapons, hundreds of mounted animal heads and other assorted taxidermy displays upon its bright red walls.
In addition to the old-timey... »
Hunting and Taxidermy, Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by amberjol
The largest collection of two headed animals in the world
As a child Todd Ray loved to visit the circus and carnivals that came through his South Carolina town. There was one thing he always wanted to see; the freakshow. At one such show Ray met "the... »
Fascinating Fauna, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by Sam E and Dylan
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps
Originally founded in 1872, the shop itself has always specialized in pest control, or more specifically as rat killers. They are still in business today. Called the Julien Aurouze & Co and... »
Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by Dylan
Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader
The Biologiska Museet was built in 1893 to a design by architect Agi Lindegren, and was inspired by the medieval Norwegian stave churches. The founder of the museum, Gustaf Kolthoff was a... »
Natural History, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by jiblite and michelle
