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Human look-alike faces in museum of rocks
If you ever visit Tokyo, consider travelling to northwest into the town of Chichibu nearly 2 hours, where you can experience one of the quirkiest museums ever.
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What makes it so quirky? It’s its former owner who spent over fifty years collecting rocks that resemble human faces.Â
From the face of Jesus to Elvis Presley, the Chinsekikan museum (The Hall of Curious Rocks) features a vast collection of 1,700 rocks, 900 of which are these face rocks. The coolest bit, though, has to be the creative associations to celebrities, politicians like Boris Yeltsin or even video game characters like Donkey Kong.Â
Since museum curator’s passing in 2010, his daughter is now in charge of the place and she intends to keep it as it is.Â
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