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Taxidermy

Comanche's final resting place: on display at the University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Comanche, Survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

Bologna Zoological Museum

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Shrunken heads. Photo by Annetta Black

Notes From the Field: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Annetta Black November 11, 2009

Monticello, Utah

Hole n" the Rock

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Permanently Closed

Venice Beach freak Show

Los Angeles, California

Venice Beach Freakshow

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Century-old rats

Julien Aurouze and Co.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Haarlem, Netherlands

Teylers Museum

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

Uncommon Objects sign

Uncommon Objects

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Rio Vista, California

Foster's Big Horn

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Hall of Hunting

Budapest, Hungary

Budapest Agriculture Museum

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

Wall, South Dakota

Wall Drug

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wagner Free Institute

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Photo CC license "Emily Webber" of www.londonshopfronts.com

London, England

Get Stuffed

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

Taxidermy and insect displays

New York, New York

The Evolution Store

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.