25 bizzare and fascinating artefacts from history that challenge perception of reality

Step into a world where the boundaries of normalcy blur, and the line between curiosity and eccentricity is delightfully thin. In the words of Grandma Aggie Cromwell from Halloweentown (1998), "Being normal is vastly overrated," and we couldn't agree more. Life has an abundance of peculiar, magical, mysterious and downright strange wonders waiting to be explored. In the realm of the peculiar, nothing quite compares to the Victorian mug designed to safeguard mustaches from tea stains or a velvet hat adorned with dental patient's teeth from the 1800s. These intriguing relics of the past, once considered commonplace, now evoke an eerie fascination.

You can find these and many other artifacts in the Museum of Curiosities, nestled within the virtual corridors of the Instagram page, @museum_of_curiosities and lovingly curated by the enigmatic Monsieur Pompier’s Travelling Freakshow musical group. We've scoured this digital treasure trove to bring you a collection of our 25 favorite posts, each one a testament to the weird and wonderful.

1. 1920s blow drying

2. Frog automation

3. Witch cakes

4. Lobster Ladies

5. Coffin Gnome

6. The choking doll

7. Mushroom Mondays

8. Inventive look

9. Family Bicycle

10. Cat-mew machine

11. Baby duck

12. Nipple Shields

13. The OG facial

14. Goddess of gold

15. The bee's knees

16. Cat on a stick

17. Bee beards

18. 1930s, fruit mask

19. Toy for the afterlife

20. The writing ball

21. The cat piano

22. Anti-theft system in the 1900s

23. House of nonsense

24. Cool cabinet

25. Happy Caturday!