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Cossé-le-Vivien, France

Musee Robert Tatin

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.
Paris, France

Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.
Cambria, California

Nitt Witt Ridge

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.
London, England

Hunterian Museum

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Lemgo, Germany

Karl Junker House

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Quigley's Castle

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.
Cagliari, Italy

Wax Anatomy Museum at University of Cagliari

A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.
Rantepao, Indonesia

The Funeral Rites of Torajaland

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.
Mejorada del Campo, Spain

Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.
Phoenix, Arizona

Mystery Castle

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.
Belhaven, North Carolina

Belhaven Memorial Museum

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Rhinestone Cowboy House at the JMK Arts Center

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.
Wellington, New Zealand

Moniac Machine

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.
Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Bory Castle

Hungarian self-built castle.
Siena, Italy

Museo Anatomico at University of Siena

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.
Dietikon, Switzerland

Bruno Weber's Weinrebenpark

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.
Houston, Texas

Museum of Health and Medical Science

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.
Paris, France

Musée de la Contrefaçon

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.
Mobile, Alabama

Mobile Medical Museum

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.
San Jose, California

The Winchester Mystery House

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Albuquerque, New Mexico

American International Rattlesnake Museum

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.
Lynchburg, Virginia

The Pest House Medical Museum

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

The Evolution Store

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
Cleveland, Ohio

Dittrick Medical Museum

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.