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Taxidermy

The Buckhorn Saloon and Museum.

San Antonio, Texas

Buckhorn Saloon and Museum

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Hemingway's Family Is Getting Some Antlers Back 52 Years After Hunter S. Thompson Stole Them

A wrong will be righted.

Erik Shilling August 16, 2016

A 1965 stamp depicting cosmonaut Alexey Leonov on the first space walk.

A Whirlwind Tour of Space Race Relics

Places left behind by Americans and Soviets in the race to the stars.

Molly McBride Jacobson August 12, 2016

Game Wardens Seized A Fully-Stuffed Polar Bear From An Oklahoma Airport

It had been killed legally.

Eric Grundhauser August 5, 2016

The mounted whale next to its mounted skeleton

Gothenburg, Sweden

Malm Whale

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

Permanently Closed

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Maxwell Blade’s Odditorium and Curiosities Museum

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

"It doesn't belong here."

White King

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Courtesy Sydney Martinez/Travel Nevada

A Night and a Day in Tonopah, Nevada

An adventure through Nevada's historic mining town, featuring the world-famous Clown Motel, a miner's graveyard, and a forest of cars.

Sponsored by Travel Nevada

The Eccentric Father of Early American Taxidermy Practiced on Ben Franklin's Cat

Charles Willson Peale befriended the founding fathers and started the first U.S. natural history museum, among other accomplishments.

Elaine Howley June 13, 2016

Permanently Closed

Queens, New York

Cypress Hills Taxidermy Studio

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

Dysfunctional Grace Art Co.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Taxidermied frogs spend a day on the lake at Froggyland

The Hungarian Taxidermist Who Saw Frogs As People

Ferenc Mere's passion lives on as Froggyland, a museum full of anthropomorphic amphibians.

Cara Giaimo April 6, 2016

Permanently Closed

Seattle, Washington

Belfry Oddities

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

Mammal Room

Bao tang Dong vat (Hanoi Zoological Museum)

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Wall of boars, guns, antlers and skulls

The "August von Spiess" Museum of Hunting

Packed to the ceiling with antique taxidermy and hunting arms.

Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge

Paxton, Nebraska

Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

Taxidermied frogs spend a day on the lake at Froggyland

Froggyland

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Alaska Resources Library and Information Services

Anchorage, Alaska

Alaska Resources Library and Information Services

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.