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EricGrundhauser

Director of Programming, Atlas Obscura Membership. Eric heads up Atlas Obscura's membership program, hosting and producing shows that bring our curious world to life! He lives in Brooklyn with his comic book collection. His work has been featured on Slate, NPR, Vanity Fair, The AV Club, Motherboard, Smithsonian, and a bunch of other places where reasonable content is sold. Helluva guy. Have any issues? eric@atlasobscura.com

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Tchirozérine, Niger

Last Tree of Ténéré

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

Josh

Independence, Missouri

Leila's Hair Museum

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Josh

Lincoln, Nebraska

Johnson Museum of the Odd

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

Josh

Mir Diamond Mine

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

Josh

Hutchings Museum Institute

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

Josh

Dietikon, Switzerland

Bruno Weber's Weinrebenpark

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

Added by mbison

Musée de la Contrefaçon

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Added by mbison

New York, New York

The Evolution Store

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Added by mbison

San Jose, California

The Winchester Mystery House

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Added by mbison

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Bakken Museum

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

Added by mbison

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile Medical Museum

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Added by mbison

Williamsburg, Virginia

Eastern State Hospital

America's first public mental health facility.

Added by mbison

Park Ridge, Illinois

Wood Library and Museum of Anesthesiology

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

Added by mbison

Stromboli, Italy

Stromboli Island

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

Dylan

Lynchburg, Virginia

The Pest House Medical Museum

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

Added by mbison

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indiana Medical History Museum

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

Added by mbison

Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Mendenhall Ice Caves

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Hannah Frishberg

Added by Hannah Frishberg