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10 Truly Bizarre Missouri Museums

By Riverfront Times Staff on Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:13 pm

City Museum, we love you in all your innate weirdness. But outside city limits, Missouri is home to some really odd places: Entire museums devoted to human hair, for example, or the puppetry arts, not to mention the supremely creepy Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph. Click through for Missouri's most eclectic collections, and maybe even plan a road trip to see all this crazy first hand.

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From the "Didn't Know We Needed This" file, the Calico Cupboard Toy Sewing Machine Museum in Mountain View. Photo courtesy Flickr/H is for Home

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The Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joe will for sure haunt your nightmares. Photo courtesy of the Missouri Division of Tourism.

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Not to mention the probably-not-at-all-creepy United Federation of Doll Clubs and Museum in KC. Photo courtesy Flickr/tiffany terry

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Leila's Hair Museum, a whole museum devoted to human hair, is located in Independence. It claims to have reliquaries of Mary (of Jesus fame), Michael Jackson and more. Photo courtesy Missouri Division of Tourism.

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In Blackwater, you can get plugged in to the Mid-Missouri Museum of Independent Telephone Pioneers. Photo courtesy Flickr/frankieleon

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Your heart will go on (and on and on) at the Titanic Museum in...Branson? Sure, why not. Photo courtesy Flickr/mulf

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From there, it's just a quick trip to the Archery Hall of Fame and Museum in Springfield. Photo courtesy Flickr/Tony Bates

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Does the Puppetry Arts Institute pull on your heartstrings? Head to Independence. Photo courtesy of the Missouri Division of Tourism.

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Kirksville's Museum of Osteopathic Medicine and International Center for Osteopathic History is as fun to visit as it is to say! Photo courtesy Flickr/Don...the UpNorth Memories Guy...Harrison

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In Bonne Terre, you can explore Earl Mullins' space museum. The weird part? Almost all of the 650 objects on display are from his own personal collection. Read more here. Photo by Jennifer Silverberg.

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