12. Mütter Museum - Philadelphia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38QlL9XnSWA Similarly to the Bangkok Forensic Museum, the Mütter Museum is home to all kinds of oddities. Situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this medical museum includes displays on a whole host of weird items and is most notably known for its collection of skulls and strange anatomical exhibits. If you fancy yourself as a Dexter-type, there's a blood art gallery or if you have always wanted to see the skeletons of conjoined twins then the Mütter Museum definitely has such treats in store. But, perhaps the most bizarre part of this museum is the so-called "soap lady". Although it may seem ridiculously unbelievable, researchers truly claim that the body of a woman who they believe died sometime during the 19th century, almost turned entirely into soap. After years of examining and researching, it seems that scientists are no closer to discovering exactly why this saponification (the process that produces soap) occurred, although it is thought that this woman was rather large as the bigger a person is, the more chance there is that saponification will happen. So, in spite of its intention of being a medical museum for medical students to learn about the oddities of the human body, the Mütter Museum has in fact turned into a tourist attraction for the morbidly curious among us.