Nominated by locals

Marsh's Free Museum

A hidden gem in Washington

A free, gleefully bizarre curio shop on the Long Beach boardwalk whose star is Jake the Alligator Man, a mummified half-man-half-gator drawing the curious since 1967, with shrunken heads and penny machines.

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