TravelPod bloggers have visited some really interesting locations all over the world. Here is just a sample of some of the strangest museums you’ll find on the planet.
1. The Iceland Phallological Museum
Rawhideone enjoyed the Phallological Museum in Iceland
And on a lighter note, the afternoon revolves around a visit to the Phallological Museum…the only one on Earth!!! What are we talking about here you might ask? Well just as the name suggests, it is a collection of the phallus (or in local, yet still biologically correct terms, the penis), from all sorts of specimens. – Rawhideone
2. Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum
Jenfifi being silly at the Ramen Museum
The Ramen Museum is what it sounds like, a museum dedicated to the various types of ramen from across the country. There is an informational floor, but the real action is on the two basement floors which feature 8 different shops serving some 25 kinds of ramen. What they have done is get all of the most famous old ramen shops from across Japan to come in and set up mini shops within the museum. – Jenfifi
3. The Kunstkamera
Strange things on display at the Kunstcamera
In my last week I visited the inside of the Church of Spilled Blood, and the museum of anthropology and ethnography (Kunstkamera) which was full of things collected by Peter the great from around the world. It included a strange, disturbing but fascinating collection of foetuses and heads in jars. Oh and a cross section of an elephant penis?! – Watchoutworld
4. Songkran Niyomsane Forensic Medicine Museum
Laurenandjack saw the inside of a human head
One interesting detour we took in Bangkok was to the Museum of Forensic Medicine at Siriraj Hospital, something we had heard about but could never really imagine. This museum showcases the mummified bodies of famous murderers and rapists, aborted fetuses in jars, car accident mangled limbs (for real!), horrendous photos of suicides, car accidents, bullet hole ridden skulls, Molotov cocktail victims, cancerous lungs and alcoholic livers, so on and so forth. – Laurenandjack
