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Do you have a hair fetish? There's a museum for you. Like stuffed frogs? There's a museum for you. Did you collect PEZ dispensers as a child? There's a museum that will blow your collection out of the water.
Across the world, there are places of learning for any interest you can imagine. Whatever gets you excited, it's likely that someone shares your tastes and has dedicated a space to preserving their history. Satisfy your curiosities about the world with The Weirdest Museums on Earth. Your next trip will be a whole lot more interesting.
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Burnt Food Museum
Location: Arlington, Mass.
Visit this museum and have a smokin' good time viewing culinary disasters. This space contains some of the greatest original carbonized culinary artwork in the world. For a private tour experience, you can pay $1,500 to have the founder and curator, Deborah Henson-Conant, as your guide.
Leila's Hair Museum
Location: Independence, Mo.
We're not talking about the craziest wigs or hairstyles in history. In this place you'll find the most elaborate and highly structured wreaths, jewelry, reliquaries, and embroidery made from human hair. Leila's Hair Museum houses intricate pieces containing hair from Queen Victoria, presidents, and even celebrities ranging from Michael Jackson to Marilyn Monroe.
Museum of PEZ Memorabilia
Location: Burlingame, Calif.
Take a trip down memory lane at the Museum of PEZ Memorabilia. Here you can find every vintage PEZ candy dispenser ever sold as well as the world's largest PEZ.
Iceland Phallological Museum
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
If you're into that sort of thing, this place houses an amusing and rare collection of over 200 penises and penile parts. The Icelandic Phallological Museum contains a huge collection of penises belonging to almost all of the land and sea mammals found in Iceland.
Sulabh International Museum Of Toilets
Location: New Delhi
This museum intends to bring awareness and educate individuals on the historical trends in the development and evolution of toilets. The Museum of Toilets also takes us back and touches on private habits of the past. Before people had their own toilets in their homes, "Defecating on the road, open spaces, or just easing themselves in the river was very common." If you give a shit, this museum is for you.
Shinyokohama Raumen Museum
Location: Yokohama, Japan
The world's first food-themed amusement park, also known as the Shinyokohama Raumen Museum, grants visitors the opportunity to enjoy this popular food by indulging in and sampling an array of famous ramen styles from shops across Japan. The museum's detailed design makes you feel like you've been transported to Japan back in the '50s to an outdoor market.
The Bunny Museum
Location: Pasadena, Calif.
This museum starts with a love story. Steve gave his girlfriend Candace a bunny on Valentine's Day in 1993 because she called him her "Hunny Bunny." Candace then gave Steve a bunny on Easter. Bunnies for every holiday eventually turned into bunny gifts every single day. What happens when a couple decides to gift each other a bunny a day for the rest of their lives? Of course their home is going to evolve into a bunny abode. The Bunny Museum is open 365 days by appointment and is made up of over 28,000 furry friends, both fake and alive.
Museum of Counterfeit Goods
Location: Bangkok
An unusual museum focused on intellectual property infringement in Thailand is composed of over 4,000 goods that infringe trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Here you can learn about all the problems the country faces when dealing with forgery. This museum showcases both the real and fake products alongside each other, teaching you how to detect a fraud.
This museum also educates visitors on the poor treatment of the workers who produce these imitated goods (often including child labor) and health hazards one can face using products from simulated medicines, baby powder formulas, car parts, sunglasses, and T-shirts.
The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum
Location: Gatlinburg, Tenn.
The world's only salt and pepper shaker museum houses over 20,000 shaker sets on display from around the world. The admission fee is three dollars, which can later be applied to any purchase in the gift shop. A lot of the shakers evoke heartfelt memories from old movies, television shows, and childhood cartoon characters.
Torture Museum
Location: Amsterdam
A visit to this museum will leave you highly disturbed and very thankful you're living in the 21st century. The Torture Museum reveals terrifying reality as it was less than two centuries ago. It exposes unsettling examples of public authorities exercising their rights to do as they pleased with the lives and bodies of their helpless subjects. This Torture Museum also includes alarming tools and machinery used on humans in the most excruciating ways.
Paris Sewer Museum
Location: Paris
Tours of the Paris sewage system have been popular since the 1800s and are still currently conducted. This Paris museum—probably the most odorous museum of them all—is an underground space where visitors can tour and attain first hand education on Paris' sewer system. It's one of the lesser known museums in Paris but said to be well worth a visit.
Meguro Parasitological Museum
Location: Tokyo
If you're squeamish and can't handle the repulsive and grotesque, the world's only museum devoted to parasites will most definitely get under your skin. The Meguro Parasitological Museum holds a collection of preserved parasites of all shapes and sizes, from repulsively long tapeworms to animals infested with parasites growing out of their heads.
Currywurst Museum
Location: Berlin
This space pays homage to those who love the best of the wurst. Currywurst lovers can come to this museum for an interactive experience. You can touch, taste, and of course learn about the history of currywursts as well as the delicacy's role in film, TV, and music.
The Dog Collar Museum
Location: Kent, England
The Dog Collar Museum offers five centuries of canine collars and cuffs, enough to satisfy the most ardent of dog enthusiasts. It is home to a unique and vast collection of historic decadent dog accessories fit for both fashion and function.
Lunchbox Museum
Location: Columbus, Ga.
"You remember it well. That rectangular friend bearing the image of your favorite teen idol, sports star, cartoon character," reads this museum's website. "It swung daily at your side, filled with tuna sandwiches, fruit snacks, and browning bananas from home." From lunchrooms and cubbies to the car, your lunchbox definitely deserves a place in history.
The Frog Museum
Location: Münchenstein, Switzerland
Ever have that random desire to view stuffed frogs? Hit up the Frog Museum, where you can see a collection of stuffed and dressed frogs in recreated scenes of every day life in the 19th century.
Tiny Museum
Location: Somerville, Mass.
Situated between the subway and the Independent, this museum—the tiniest in the world—consists of micro-sized works of art. The curators of this museum sought to make art more approachable and fun for everyone by bringing it right up to the viewer and placing in an commonplace environment: on a brick wall between two buildings.
The Museum of Bad Art
Location: Somerville, Mass.
Art that should be trashed is actually a treasure for the curators of this museum. The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) is a privately owned museum displaying the artwork of untalented artists who produced pieces "too bad to be ignored."
Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
Location: New Carrollton, Md.
Department of Defence employee Harry Finley curated the Museum of Menstruation in the basement of his single storey brick home. Although he's wrapped everything up, the museum still exists online. The site is composed of both cultural and humorous menstruation articles and news, as well as the history of menstrual products from different periods (pun intended) and places around the world.
Museum
Location: New York
New York's smallest museum, simply known as Museum, is a 60-square-foot space housed in an abandoned freight elevator located in a Chinatown alley. It's made up of small modern day artifacts with big stories that were collected from streets around the world. Museum is created to frame objects often overlooked, ignored, and with unexpected narratives.