Museums of the Weird
A Brief History of America's Most Outrageous Dentist
Painless Parker and his dental circus live on in a Philadelphia museum
Collection of Fossilized Poo Certified as World's Largest
George Frandsen's 1,200-piece coprolite collection earns the Florida man a spot in Guinness World Records
A Brief History of Bog Butter
Turf cutters in Ireland regularly find chunks of butter deep in the nation's peat bogs. What is the stuff doing there?
Help England Crowdsource Its History
Historic England is asking the public for information and photos on 21 weird and wonderful sites on its list of historic places
See Over 2,000 Wax Models of Skin Diseases at This Swiss Medical Moulage Museum
It's hard to look, and hard to look away, at this unique, and medically valuable, collection of wax blisters, hives and sores
Five Fascinating Places to Visit This Obscura Day
<i>Atlas Obscura</i> celebrates all things weird and wonderful worldwide this Saturday
Chicago Is Getting a Pizza Museum
Hold the anchovies: This pop-up is a pizza-lover’s dream
How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field
After an ambitious monument went bust, big dreams—and big heads—remain
Embrace the Art of Failure at Austria's Nonseum
From nosepickers to historic buttonholes, the Nonseum is full of failed inventions
The Lonely, Lifesaving Job of Lighthouse Keepers, Revealed at the National Lighthouse Museum
A new museum in Staten Island tells the stories of men and women who ran lighthouses throughout America’s history and shows off some unique antiques
One Man's Obsession With Antique Toys Resulted in a Museum
The Portland, Oregon, attraction is more than just the stuff of Kidd's play
Ride This Bizarre, Old-School Elevator Before They All Shut Down
The paternoster elevators of Europe are weird, a bit scary and getting harder and harder to find. For now, there are still a few you can ride
A Museum Keeps The Fake Noses That Once Replaced Those Missing on Ancient Sculptures
The exhibit is a testament to art restoration’s changing values
This Obscura Day, Discover the Curiosities in Your Own Backyard
Creepy dolls, KGB secrets and unexpected pinball troves—media startup Atlas Obscura invites readers to explore their own hometowns on May 30
Inside Los Angeles's Strangest Museum
Enter the dark and completely unique world of the Museum of Jurassic Technology
The California Surf Museum
Learn about the evolution of the surfboard from 1912 through 2008 in this small gallery in Oceanside, California
The Kansas Barbed Wire Museum
With more than 2400 variations of barbed wire, this La Crosse, Kansas, museum has a lot to teach the non-farmers out there
The National Museum of Health and Medicine
This Silver Spring, Maryland site scares and educates, with displays of prosthetic eyes, amputated limbs and incomplete skeletons
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
A throwback to the private museums of earlier centuries, this Los Angeles spot has a true hodgepodge of natural history artifacts
Ladew Topiary Gardens
Clipped hedges and a house full of antiques are the main attractions for this museum north of Baltimore, Maryland
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