The Museum of Sex in New York cannot complain about attendance
The Vibrator Museum and Pantheon of Masturbation
This museum in San Francisco tells the history of objects that have helped women combat neuroses stemming from dissatisfaction over the last couple of hundred years. The exhibition's authors claim that vibrators are among the top five items for which humanity began using electricity.
The exhibition appeared thanks to the company Good Vibration, founded in 1977 by American sexologist Jany Blanc, and initially engaged only in sexual education of the population. The firm even declared May as "Masturbation Month" and promoted self-gratification as the best remedy for stress.
But over the years, the doctor concluded that people need not to be taught but to be satisfied, and opened a line of sexual toys. About half of the exhibits tell the glorious "history" of the company, while the rest takes visitors through the centuries, describing various ways to please oneself.
Museum of Human Anomalies
The museum, established at the Medical College of Philadelphia, has over its existence collected a rich collection of pathologies of the human body. On display are surgical instruments, wax sculptures, and various parts of human bodies, unusual from both medical and layman's perspectives.
For example, the museum houses the corpse of the "soap woman," who died in the 19th century from yellow fever and turned into a soap-like substance due to the properties of the soil in which she was buried. Also on display is the colon of a man who defecated no more than once a month throughout his life. Unsurprisingly, he died quite young, at the age of 20. There is also a female skull with a growth resembling a horn, the single liver of the world-famous Siamese twins Chang and Eng, and other "interesting" items.
Icelandic Phallological Museum
Located in Reykjavik, the museum boasts a rich collection of phalluses from almost all marine and land mammals inhabiting Iceland and its coastal waters.
It is said that the museum has already been bequeathed the member of a living Icelander, who wished his organ to complement the collection. Additionally, one can find phalluses supposedly belonging to water spirits, elves, and other mythical creatures.
Museum of Parasitology
In an unremarkable two-story building in one of Tokyo's districts, various creatures are preserved in alcohol, which might make you regret the sushi you had for lunch. Here is a rich collection of leeches, nematodes, tapeworms, and other parasites, along with explanations and visual demonstrations of the effects they can have on the human or animal body. For example, you can see a 9-meter worm that grew in the intestine of a person who had the misfortune of eating infected trout.
At the exit of the museum, as usual, there is a souvenir shop where you can buy T-shirts with images of leeches, keychains shaped like tapeworms, and even silver nematode figurines.
Vrolik Museum
If you are interested in seeing preserved infants and embryos, you couldn't find a better place. This private collection, consisting of anatomical, zoological, and teratological specimens, was assembled in the 19th century by professor of medicine Gerard Vrolik and his son.
Here are about 5,000 specimens of congenital anomalies in humans and animals. In other words, shelves are lined with jars containing many dead, deformed children, as well as abnormal parts of human bodies. Two-headed infants, skeletons of Siamese twins, a cyclopic embryo, and plaster casts speak for themselves. You don't have to go far for impressions; the museum is in Amsterdam.
Based on materials from Turist.ru