10.Guajuanato Mummy Museum, Mexico

Many people may not know where Guanajuato is or what is so special about that place. Nobody realize how unique and bizarre this place can be. Guanajuato is a city and municipality in central Mexico and the capital of the state of the same name.

 It is located in a narrow valley, which makes the streets of the city narrow and winding. Most are alleys that cars cannot pass through, and some are long sets of stairs up the mountainsides. Many of the city’s thoroughfares are partially or fully underground. The historic center of the city has numerous small plazas and colonial-era mansions, churches and civil constructions built using pink or green sandstone.

Guanajuato is famous for its Mummy Museum. The Mummy Museum are fill with mummies from infants until the elderly consist of male and female. The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. There are 119 mummies on display. The mummies are some of the strangest ones ever put on display. Some are clothed while others only have shoes.

These mummies were discovered in a cemetery located in Guanajuato, which has made the city one of the biggest tourist attractions in Mexico. All of these mummies were disinterred between 1865 and 1958, when the law required relatives to pay a tax in order to keep the bodies in the cemetery.

If the relatives could not pay this tax, they would lose the right to the burial place, and the dead bodies were disinterred. Ninety percent of the bodies in the cemetery were disinterred because their relatives did not pay the tax. However, only 2% of them were naturally mummified. The mummified bodies were stored in a building and in the 1900s the mummies began attracting tourists.

The mummies of Guanajuato have been a notable part of Mexican popular culture, echoing the national holiday "The Day of the Dead" (El Dia de los Muertos). A well known B movie called Santo vs. The Mummies of Guanajuato (1970) pitted the well-known Mexican professional wrestler Santo and several others in a battle to a predictable finish (which of course, the hero wins).

Surely, Guanajuato might not be a suitable for all people but so far this museum has the largest collection of mummies in the world. If you are somehow a person who likes to watch bizarre things like this, then this might be your place.