Manchac Swamp, Louisiana
Torchlit nighttime boat tours are offered by the Old River Plantation Adventure through the Manchac Swamp a.k.a the "Haunted Swamp". This site is located near New Orleans which means you can stop through this swamp and then go hit up Bourbon St. for good food and fun afterward. Ancient cypress trees and Spanish moss are scattered throughout to make the swamp a bit more eerie for it's visitors. It is said that the swamp was cursed by an imprisoned voodoo queen around the turn of the last century, resulting in the disappearance of three hamlets in a hurricane in 1915. And people are probably really frightened by the swamp being that it has been left alone by commercial development for more than 100 years. You be the judge. Louisiana always seemed like a spooky place to live what with all the voodoo and black magic that is said to still be practiced here.
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Mütter Museum, Philadelphia
"From the sliced human head floating in a glass case, à la Damien Hirst, to the gruesome collection of preserved presidential tumors and a plaster cast of Siamese twins Chang and Eng (as well as their actual conjoined livers), Philadelphia's Mütter museum is a must-see, especially for those who found the movie Dead Ringers oddly compelling. Part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the oldest medical school complex in North America, it combines exhibits of pathological objects, surgical tools, and anatomical curiosities. Other wonders on display include the tallest skeleton in North America and a collection of 2,000 objects removed from people's throats, each with its own case history. There is an almost gleeful disconnection between the museum's mission—"to advance the cause of health, and uphold the ideals and heritage of medicine"—and the often shocking displays. High on the ugh-list are the painted papier-mâché models of the effects of gangrene and the wax faces with various eye injuries; the air outside is bound to seem fresh afterward, no matter what the weather."
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