Taxidermy

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

An oddity shop filled with loads of bones, skulls, crafting materials, vintage taxidermy, and more.

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

This bullfrog grew to an alleged weight of 42 pounds on a diet of whiskey, baked beans, and June bugs.

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.