15 Strangest Museums Ever

 

• From exhibits featuring sewerage to a museum entirely composed of burnt food wecount 15 weird and wonderful choices in items up for public display15 - Parasite Museum, • This one is based in Tokyo, featuring300 unique selections of parasites in a museum with free entry• Not only does it display the parasites themselves, but you can also view picturesshowing the adverse affect they have on their host, rotten flesh and so forth• But as its perhaps most exquisite piece de resistance, a 30-foot tapeworm pulled outof a woman who ate the wrong king of sushi - apart from visiting this museum, the onlyother way you'll see this many parasites gathered in one place is if you walk into your localwelfare office 14 - Museum of Burnt Food,• Based in a Massachusetts house more than a museum, the story here is people send inpieces of food they've accidentally burned to be displayed for the public• The testing process isn't very intensive to find out if the food was burned on purposeor by accident, so they rely on the honour system to send in their burnt item and a compellingstory • The owner of the museum even has an attractionwhere upon she left sweet potatoes cooking in her oven for five weeks while she skippedover to Mexico 13 - Museum of Death,• A popular attraction from Los Angeles, solely dedicated to the topic of real lifehuman death and execution • It was established in 1995 and featurescoffins, execution equipment, crime scene photos and one carved up head of a Frenchserial killer • Unlike Halloween attractions, this onewas built purely to inform and prepare people for the inevitable reality of death - notsomewhere you would take a girl for their first date12 - Vulcan Museum, • A massive coincidence that this town happenedto share the same name as the red planet from Star Trek, home to Mr Spock - but in termsof tourism, it more than paid off • The Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station featuresa whole array of memorabilia, including a set of ears provided by Leonard Nimoy himself• Outside you'll find a large-scale replica of the Enterprise, and free entry inside themuseum - certainly worth a gander if you ever hit up Alberta, Canada11 - Cancun Underwater Museum, • A series of human sculptures for the seafloor, an exhibit only viewable if you're willing to strap on scuba gear or in a boatwith a glass-floor window • Each of the sculptures are created witha type of pH-neutral clay, which means marine life can grow on them freely - eventuallyan entire underwater ecosystem will thrive on these statues• The work seen here is now listed in the top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic10 - Sewer Museum, • This is the sewer system trailing underParis dating back 200 years ago, so large that it can easily fit human beings• Like the land above, these sewers have matching street signs and addresses to certainareas of the country, like intestines worming all through the body• Of course, since these sewers pay homage to one of the world's most polluted cities,the stench can be pretty unbearable - so get ready to hold your nose for most of the tour9 - Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, • Exactly as it sounds, a showcase of allthe terrible tools and beliefs that these instruments could help cure you of ailments• Curator Bob McCoy donated the collection to the Science Museum of Minnesota, whereyou can view breast enlargers from the 1970s, or skull measurement contraptions• But perhaps its most popular exhibit is the 1930s Rejuvenator, in which you encloseyour body in a large tube to get pounded by magnetic and radio waves in order to reversethe aging process 8 - Penis Museum,• This place is entirely dedicated to the collecting of wangs from all the creaturesof Earth, along with examples of their place in art, history and society as a whole• Currently they've gathered over a hundred penises from animals found all over Icelandwith blue whales to mice and even some claiming to be off elves and trolls• Once again, not an ideal place to take her on the first date• This is more of a fourth date exhibit 7 - Museum of Broken Relationships,• A Croatian museum that found its roots in 2006 originally meant to be a travellingshow with exhibit donations from family and friends• It got so popular that they were able to find permanent residence in the city ofZagreb - with nearly 40,000 visitors every year• Each item in the exhibit comes with a story about the type and length of relationship,usually showing how important the item was, with some as the CAUSE for the failed relationship6 - Human Disease Museum, • This one comes in from Australia, an educationalexhibit showcasing diseases with x-rays, bionic implants, information and medical tools• The museum even changes based on currently evolving diseases and their patterns in society• Around the time this video goes up they'll be hosting a zombie apocalypse event teachingyou how to avoid influenza, SARS and swine flu with virtual autopsies and a build-your-ownsuper bug zombie disease 5 - Ventriloquism Museum,• This is the place you'd go to find out whether or not you have automatonophobia,the fear of false living beings like these dummies• You'll find the dummies lined up, all staring around the room with dead eyes fromboth pictures on the walls as well as from the chairs they sit on• Some are donated from the great performers of history both ancient and modern, includingcomedian Jeff Dunham as we all from Russian POW captives from long ago4 - Dog Collar Museum, • Over near Leeds Castle in Kent lie 500acres filled with parkland, along with memorabilia of Henry the Eight and this here museum featuringdog collars • The owners carry a large collection ofall the collars from history spanning five centuries - a calendar into the history ofhound-rearing • Since the start of this collection they'vecollected over 100 collars along with related items of interest3 - Lawnmower Museum, • This one is a British exhibit dedicatedto the rather fascinating history behind lawnmowers, though you wouldn't think there WAS one• It was invented in 1830 by Edward Budding initially designed to trim the knap off textilecloth, until he realised it'd be quite useful on grass too• This museum sports over 200 models, providing parts and archive conservation on antiquelawnmowers from all over 2 - UFO Museum,• This one comes in from Roswell, New Mexico, where in 1947 the town changed forever whena rancher came across an apparently alien crash site• Ever since then, Area 51 and Roswell have become the unofficial hotspot for alien conspiracy,sighting and abduction conversation • You can actually visit most weekdays forunder 5 bucks per person with an annual Roswell UFO Festival each year around July1 - Museum of Criminal Anthropology • Loosely translated, it means Italian criminologistCesare Lombroso is looking for a connection to humans and crime through outward appearanceand facial structure • His methods were so mixed that they wereboth praised and shunned by his home country and the rest of the world• You can find heads, specimens weapons and criminal evidence all here on display,but only visit if you like staring at the faces of violent, dead people for a while.

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