“The Musee Mechanique is a wondrous warehouse full of antique toys – each more strange, creepy, and hilarious than the last – all waiting to be played with. They aren’t behind glass, are absent of informative plaques, and none of the antique games are off limits. The museum is free if you just want to look, but we dare you to try and leave the Museé Mécanique without succumbing to curiosity at least once. Don’t you want to know what lays behind that velvet curtain in the French Execution machine? Or what Grandmother Fortune would see about you in her tarot cards?”

Read more at Curious Expeditions for the story of the obsessive collector who began this time machine of a museum when he was 11 years old.

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