In the heart of Grand Prairie, Texas, stands a palace of peculiarities that would make your grandmother’s collection of ceramic cats look positively mundane – Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium.

The Dittrick Medical History Center sits unassumingly on Case Western Reserve University’s campus, quietly housing one of America’s most captivating collections of medical artifacts and oddities.

S ome guns never get the spotlight they earned. They were reliable when mud swallowed boots, clever when factories were ...