5.The Purgatory Museum
Purgatory is the place where those who die to go to for their sins to be judged, well, Catholics at least. The soul is allegedly trapped in Purgatory until it pays for all its sins, a process that can be avoided if the loved ones left behind pray for the soul. It is a teaching that most believers found hard to believe or prove until 1897 when a fire burnt down part of the original Chapel Of Our Lady Of The Rosary, leaving behind an imprint of what looked like a human face in deep suffering. Victor Jouet, a French missionary, and other priests decided to go on the hunt for other artefacts that proved visitations by these souls in agony.
It was the birth of the Museum of the Holy Souls In Purgatory, which houses the largest collection of supernatural visits. The collections include a bible with the imprint of a burning human hand. There are pieces of clothes with strange imprints of faces and hands with stories of how suffering souls visited living people to remind them to make prayer or masses for them. The wide collection of scary drawings by people believed to have been haunted by their loved ones in Purgatory makes the museum look like a day through Purgatory itself.
6.The House On The Rock
Alex Jordan’s home called the house on the rock is one of the most interesting museums in America. It is different from traditional museums as it wasn’t necessarily meant to be an attraction for visitors, so Jordan decided to let it speak for itself. As you walk into the vast house, you don’t really expect to meet the scare of your life until you realize the dark rooms with scary collections in different places.
The rooms and the objects are not labelled, so you walk into one room and find a skeleton riding a strange sea monster. In another room, you find a giant looking squid while in another, a whale fights another strange sea monster. The strange smell of rot in some places and other scary objects can scare you from proceeding to the next room, but most visitors confess that, in the end, it is always worth it.