A museum which is filled up with bizarrely unusual kinds of rocks that are shaped like human faces, has got people stunned.
The rocks are shaped like human faces
This is Chinsekikan which is also know as The Hall of Curious Rocks.
Chinsekikan is a unique museum in the Japanese town Saitama, just
outside Tokyo, where visitors can admire close to 1,000 rocks that
resemble human faces.
Oddity Central reports that this outlandish tourist attraction is
the work of the late Shozo Hayama, a rock enthusiast who spent 50 years
of his life collecting strange-looking rocks, and especially those that
resembled human faces.
His only requirement was that nature be the only artist, and
believe it or not he actually put together a collection of over 900
human-looking rocks, some of which resemble famous people, like rock’n
roll legend Elvis Presley or Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Shozo Hayama passed away in 2010, leaving behind an impressive
collection of around 1,700 strange-shaped rocks, which is now curated by
his daughter, Yoshiko Hayama.
While some of the rocks on display at The Hall of Curious Stones
have been named the Hayama’s according to the person or the thing they
resemble, most of them don’t have names, so Yoshiko sometimes lets
visitors name them.
Apart from the 900 plus rocks naturally shaped like human faces,
the Chinsekikan museum also has stones that resemble popular movie and
cartoon characters, like E.T., Mickey Mouse or everyone’s favorite
tropical fish, Nemo.
There’s also one shaped like the Koopa Troopa shell from Super Mario video games, or Donkey Kong.
This place has so many funny-looking rocks, but as This Belongs in a
Museum blog notes, it seems to have one shaped like Dwayne Johnson,
a.k.a. “The Rock”.
The Hall of Curious Rocks museum is located just 10 minutes away
from Kagemori Station, but visitors are advised to announce their visit
in advance because the museum is known to unexpectedly close for
personal reasons.
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