Ripley's Eye-Popping Odditorium Hits San Antonio

Why remember the Alamo? Because it's just a stone's throw from Ripley's all-new Odditorium -- home to a two-trunked elephant, Lee Harvey Oswald's autopsy toe-tag, a 512-lb. meteorite, and other one-of-a-kind wonders.

Heavily-pierced sideshow stars swung from metal hooks, Sideshow Bennie the Human Pincushion hammered nails into his head, and a knee-high woman -- known as "The Human Tripod" -- sang.

San Antonio has long been home to a Ripley's Believe It Or Not! museum, but the all-new Odditorium ratchets up the weirdness.

Among the other featured exhibits:

The mummified head of famed Colorado cannibal Alfred Packer; a preserved deer with eight feet on four legs; the car Lee Harvey Oswald used on the day he assassinated John F. Kennedy; and a 23-foot model of the Eiffel Tower made from toothpicks.

And if you have time, don't forget to check out the Alamo.

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• Photos of the Odditorium's Opening
• Coney Island Sideshow School

Photo © Ripley's Believe It or Not!