It's a funny ol' world

New Mexico seems to pride itself on having some of the weirdest museums we've seen on our travels. Some interesting and others just plain bizarre. We visited the best two... i think!





The Albuquerque Rattlesnake Museum. Easily one of the greatest, yet smallest museums in the world. It holds the largest collection of rattlesnakes anywhere on earth, apart from maybe Jake 'The Snake' Roberts' house! There were also a load of spiders, scorpions and hissing cockroaches which poor Priya found terrifying, but I loved. Probably the best part of the trip to the Rattlesnake house were the tie-dye T-shirts they were selling, one of which I am now a proud owner of.





.. Then we went to the outer limits in Roswell. It was time to go boldly into the Alien Museum and also into a shop that had kitted itself out with an alien studio thingy. Just look at the photos and you get the idea.



The Roswell Alien Museum was based mainly on the Area 51 incident and featured a load of newspaper clippings, transcripts and photos. It was all very interesting, if a little far fetched, but all in all worth the 5 sheets (3 queen heads) to get in.

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