Taxidermy

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

This bullfrog grew to an alleged weight of 42 pounds on a diet of whiskey, baked beans, and June bugs.

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

A gorgeous and extensive collaboration between biologists and artists, displaying skeletons and other animal remnants in lifelike poses.

An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.