If you find yourself in Silicon Valley, ignore the tech bros and tour the Winchester Mystery House

I found the Rosicrucian Egyptian museum much creepier because they have a collection of South American shrunken heads. They’re not always on display and I don’t know if they’re out now, but it’s how I learned as a kid that shrunken heads are just the skin that has been shrunken, and not the skull or anything else.

I have no idea why the Egyptian museum has South American shrunken heads. I guess because they are thematically related, being preservation of body parts after death?

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