Taxidermy

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.