5 Strangest Museums You Can Actually Visit

Avanos Hair Museum — Avanos, Turkey (16,000 Locks of Hair in a Cave)

Deep beneath a pottery shop in the Turkish town of Avanos lies a cave containing the hair of over 16,000 women. Each lock is labeled with a name and sometimes contact information. The collection started when a local potter asked a woman he’d just met for a lock of her hair as a memento, and the tradition grew into a full-blown museum. Today, the cave is a bizarre shrine to anonymous women from around the world. Some say it’s romantic. Most people just find it incredibly creepy.